Would you mind linking to the ticket you're talking about? Will encourage 
more people to participate if they don't have to search Trac for it ;)

Josh

On Monday, 22 December 2014 01:05:14 UTC+11, Brian Faherty wrote:
>
> Hey Folks,
>   Teams I have been on in the past have used natural keys extensively. As 
> a result many people have complained about the current way to implement 
> them. Not only do you have to implement two methods that are the reverse of 
> each other in a compatible way, but you also need to remember to attach the 
> manager which you created to the model. None of these steps are hard, but 
> some are easy to typo, and when a typo is made error messages can be sort 
> of confusing to debug. The best example is if the manager is missing the 
> get_by_natural_key method, is it really missing on the manager or is the 
> wrong manager on the model.
>   The solution I propose is a meta field on the model that allows you to 
> set natural keys there. If done in a way where it was backwards compatible 
> it could be added without breaking existing functionality. I already have 
> code for it and put in a ticket 
> <https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/23780>. After some extensive 
> feedback from freakboy3742 (thank you btw), timgraham recommended that I 
> bring this up on the developers mailing list if I feel strongly about it. 
> So here I am. I am willing to continue work on this code if someone 
> proposes a change that they think would be necessary to accept this idea.
>
> Brian
>

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