Hi,
On Wednesday, June 6, 2012 4:32:02 PM UTC+2, Anssi Kääriäinen wrote:
>
> Still, yet another API idea: [snip]
>
>
Then, Model.__new__ will replace the SwappableUser class with the
> swapped in class. The 'swappable' in model.Meta tells which concrete
> model implementation to use.
>
I'd rather not dynamically replace models. The system proposed by Russell
is clean and requires no extra magic. The only thing which might look a bit
odd is inheriting from a swapped model, eg like:
class MyUserProxy(get_user_model()):
class Meta:
proxy = True
etc… (Which obviously can get a bit nicer by using User = get_user_model()
and then inheriting from that).
>
> About the ORM capabilities of the interface: It seems there can not be
> any assumptions about the swapped in model here: for example
> SomeModel.filter(user__is_staff=True) or
> SomeModel.order_by('user__lastname', 'user__firstname') works
> currently, but there are no such lookups available for the interface.
> Maybe there should be some way to order by "full_name" and
> "short_name" at least. But, this gets us quickly to virtual fields or
> virtual lookups territory...
>
Imo it's fine if we require some fields on a Usermodel to be compatible
with admin and friends. (eg a first/last_name field which is nullable [or
not required in the form validation sense] shouldn't hurt anyone, the admin
could check if the field is filled and if not display something else like
the username).
Cheers,
Florian
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