[that link is going down -- hence, I'm pasting the contents below]
Django ORM does not support inheritance. Inheritance is a good thing.
Often I want some of the database models to share some common fields
and the same manager. For example consider the case of adding the
delete proxy.
class RetainDeletesMixin(object):
class NonDeleted(models.Manager):
def get_query_set(self):
return super(NonDeleted, self).get_query_set().filter(
delete_flag=0)
delete_flag = models.IntegerField(null=True, blank=True,
default=0)
objects = NonDeleted()
def delete(self):
self.delete_flag = 1
self.save()
class Item(RetainDeletesMixin, models.Model):
...
Here we are extending the model Item by adding a mixin that overrides
the delete method - so that when we do item.delete() the model is not
actually deleted but merely flagged (delete_flag=1) so. This means the
get_query_set method should also be told not to return the flagged
models. In Python speak,
>>> items = Item.objects.all()
>>> item = items[0]
>>> len(items)
1
>>> item.delete_flag
0
>>> item.delete()
>>> item.delete_flag
1
>>> len(Item.objects.all())
0
>>>
But this will not work. Django does not consider delete_flag, which is
inherited from RetainDeletesMixin, as a database column at all. So I
came up with the following metaclass hack which enables you to design
the django models based on the inheritance pattern like the above,
class RetainDeletesMixin(object):
class NonDeleted(models.Manager):
def get_query_set(self):
# Ideally, we should be using `super` here but we don't
because
# the variable `NonDeleted` will not be accessible once we
# 'copy' this class in the metaclass.
return models.Manager.get_query_set(self).filter(
delete_flag=0)
delete_flag = models.IntegerField(null=True, blank=True,
default=0)
objects = NonDeleted()
def delete(self):
self.delete_flag = 1
self.save()
def django_extends(base):
class ProxyMetaClass(models.Model.__metaclass__):
def __new__(cls, name, bases, attrs):
# The following attributes must be moved *prior* to
deferring
# execution to the models.Model's metaclass, because they
# will be manipulated by __new__
# - models.fields.Field instances
# - objects (ModelManager)
for key in dir(base):
if not key.startswith('_'):
obj = getattr(base, key)
if isinstance(obj, models.fields.Field) or \
key == 'objects':
attrs[key] = obj
delattr(base, key)
# Delete objects that have attribute
'contribute_to_class'
# for otherwise that will break in
# base.py:Model.add_to_class
# Eg: inner classes inherited from models.Manager
elif hasattr(obj, 'contribute_to_class'):
delattr(base, key)
return super(ProxyMetaClass,
cls).__new__(cls, name,
tuple([base]+list(bases)),
attrs)
frame = sys._getframe(1)
frame.f_locals['__metaclass__'] = ProxyMetaClass
class Item(models.Model):
django_extends(RetainDeletesMixin)
...
What this basically does is - copy the database fields and objects
from the base class (RetainDeletesMixin) to the derived class (Item)
so that Django will recognize it upon processing in ModelBase. It also
makes RetainDeletesMixin a base class of Item. I have not tested this
code extensively, but it works for the models that I have written in
our application.
On Dec 19, 1:53 pm, Sridhar Ratnakumar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> I wanted to share this little hack of mine - conceptual (not database-
> based)inheritancefordjango:http://nearfar.org/blog/django-model-inheritance.html
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