Connecting to FirebirdSQL-Database as a second DB

[Djangaroo]

Hello everybody,

I'm having trouble connecting a second Database to my Django Project.

I would like to read Data from the Firebirdsql database, to display on my Website.

I have downloaded 'django-firebird'  Link

This is the setup I am using, wicht isn't working:

DATABASES = {
    'default': {
        'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.sqlite3',
        'NAME': os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'db.sqlite3'),
    },
    'zef': {
        'ENGINE': 'firebird',
        'NAME': os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'Blabla.FDB'),
        'USER' : 'MyDBUser',
        'PASSWORD' : 'Topsecret',
        'HOST' : '127.0.0.1',
        'PORT' : '3050',
    }      
}

and have also imported firebird and fdb:

import os, fdb, firebird

I still keep getting the following error message, when I try running my Server:

django.core.exceptions.ImproperlyConfigured: 'firebird' isn't an available database backend.
Try using django.db.backends.XXX, where XXX is one of:
    'base', 'mysql', 'oracle', 'postgresql_psycopg2', 'sqlite3'
Error was: cannot import name 'BaseDatabaseOperations'

I've been stuck here for a while and would really appreciate your help.

[Jani Tiainen]

Hi,

Are you sure that django-firebird is compatible with version of Django you're using?

Docs seem to indicate that django-firebird supports only Django 1.6.x

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[Djangaroo]

Hi,

Thanks for the quick answer! No I'm not sure if it's compatible... I'm using Django 1.8.2 if that helps

I really don't know how I need to go about this. I can't find a way to connect my Database with the Django Project.

At the moment I'm trying to get this to work

[Jani Tiainen]

As I said, django-firebird is compatible with Django 1.6.x and older releases. So it won't work with Django 1.8.2

You do have three options:

1) Fix or ask someone to fix django-firebird to support Django 1.8
2) Use Firebird database without Django ORM directly.
3) Use Django 1.6.x (not recommended since it's unsupported)

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