In my previous post I wrote about cataloguing 28 years worth of my visits to see movies, plays, gigs, exhibitions, etc. It might be useful or interesting to someone else, or to me to remember why some things are how they are. The events part was new and I ended up changing my mind about its structure while writing it. I hope no one else has been using the code during this time. In the Django code these are all models, each one representing a database table. The Creator model represents an individual or a group.
On GitHub. Creator s also have a field for name. Each field is a column in a database table, like a column in a spreadsheet. If we were getting complicated we could have People and Groups as separate models, with a Group containing zero or more People. This might be useful if you went to see the group Ben Folds Five one year and then the next saw Ben Folds on his own β you might want to represent that they are linked, or that you had now seen Ben Folds twice, once as part of a group.
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But this is more complex than is useful to me and so I conflated the two, which is good enough almost all the time. Creator s are shared between both the reading and events parts of the code. Creator s have a single name field, which avoids these problems with using firstname and surname and means it can also be used if the Creator is a group.
A Venue is a place where an Event happened. A cinema, theatre, ferry , a street , etc. The Event model records a visit to see something on a specific date at, optionally, a specific Venue. I can imagine adding an optional time field in future, if only so that multiple Event s on the same day can be displayed in the correct order.
Other people will have other requirements. Still, this lets us display particular kind s of Event grouped together, which feels important. I realised there are two different ways this can be done. The simplest, is for zero or more Creator s to be linked directly to an Event. We can link their Creator object to this particular Event object. But what if you go to see Dunkirk again? So it seems we need a separate Movie model. We could link Creator s like Christopher Nolan to this.
