A new model field option doesn't seem necessary. I think a cleaner solution
would be something like a decorator that takes a list of fields, e.g.
@repr_fields('first_name', 'last_name')
class Person(...):
...
This doesn't need to live in Django itself though.
On Thursday, June 23, 2016 at 7:30:50 PM UTC-4, Ben Friedland wrote:
>
> Has a feature like this ever been considered?
>
> If a model has no __unicode__, __str__ or __repr__ representation, then
> maybe it could devise a string representation by collecting fields which
> have this value set to True.
>
> Example:
>
> Without the feature:
>
> class Person(models.Model):
> first_name = models.CharField(max_length=50)
> last_name = models.CharField(max_length=50)
>
> >>> person = Person(first_name='Ben', last_name='Friedland')
> >>> print person
> <Person: Person object> # fairly useless object representation
>
>
> This feature would work something like:
>
> class Person(models.Model):
> first_name = models.CharField(max_length=50, *repr_output=True*)
> last_name = models.CharField(max_length=50, *repr_output=True*)
>
> >>> person = Person(first_name='Ben', last_name='Friedland')
> >>> print person
> <Person: first_name='Ben', last_name='Friedland'> # includes fields
> specified via repr_output=True
>
> If this would be useful I'd be happy to formally create an issue and even
> implement the feature.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Ben Friedland
> www.bugben.com
>
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