I'm having trouble coming up with a pretty solution to a seemingly simple
task. I'm relatively new to Django.
I want to allow the end user to control various lists of links on the site
used for navigation. The admin should allow the creation of "link groups"
which have a collection of "links". These links would reference a
pre-determined list of models. Let's say, for example, that there is a "link
group" created for the footer links of a website. In the admin section, a
user could add a link to a specific blog (from the Blog model), another link
to the about us page (flatpages), etc.
In other words, I'm trying to associate individual records from a number of
tables together as a group of objects having a URL. I'm trying to find a
nice, abstract solution. Obviously I don't want actual URLs in the database.
This is something I would use frequently so I want to see if I can find or
write an app to do this--if I can come up with an elegant solution.
This would be nice, but, I can't imagine how it could be possible:
class LinkGroup(models.Model):
site = models.ForeignKey(Site)
name = models.CharField()
class Links(models.Model):
link_group = ForeignKey(LinkGroup)
model_type = ???
model_id = ForeignKey(<to the PK of the above the model_type>) # no can
do!
sort_order = PositiveIntegerField(default=100)
This is an idea, however, I don't like having to reference the import in the
DB. It's just begging for problems.
class LinkModel(models.Model):
name = models.CharField() # such as "Flat Page"
model = models.CharField() # such as "myapp.models.FlatPage"
class LinkGroup(models.Model):
site = models.ForeignKey(Site)
name = models.CharField() # such as "Navigation Links"
class Link(models.Model):
text = CharField() # such as "About Us"
link_group = ForeignKey(LinkGroup)
model = ForeignKey(LinkModel)
model_id = PositiveIntegerField() # such as the PK for the
myapp.models.FlatPage model
sort_order = PositiveIntegerField(default=100)
Any suggestions?
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