django days-of-week representation in model

Question

I have this "Jobs Server" model that i'm building. I want to include a field that will save which days of the week this job will run on. Ultimately in the UI, i would like the user to be able to have a series of check boxes(one for each day) that they can select. What would be the best way to represent this "days-of-week" data in my mode?

class Job(models.Model):
    name = models.CharField(max_length=32, unique=True)
    package = models.ForeignKey(Package)
    binary = models.ForeignKey(Binary)
    host = models.ForeignKey(Host)
    colo = models.ForeignKey(Location)
    group = models.ForeignKey(Group)
    type = models.ForeignKey(Type)
    start = models.TimeField()
    end = models.TimeField()
    days = ?

Answer 1

You may want to create DayOfTheWeek field type, which you can improve in various ways.

This code cause to translate automatically into the local language using the multilingual tools.

#myFields.py
from django.utils.translation import ugettext as _

DAY_OF_THE_WEEK = {
    '1' : _(u'Monday'),
    '2' : _(u'Tuesday'),
    '3' : _(u'Wednesday'),
    '4' : _(u'Thursday'),
    '5' : _(u'Friday'),
    '6' : _(u'Saturday'), 
    '7' : _(u'Sunday'),
}

class DayOfTheWeekField(models.CharField):
    def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
        kwargs['choices']=tuple(sorted(DAY_OF_THE_WEEK.items()))
        kwargs['max_length']=1 
        super(DayOfTheWeekField,self).__init__(*args, **kwargs)

#models.py
import myFields
(..)
    dayOfTheWeek = myFields.DayOfTheWeekField()
(..)