Hi, I don't know if crossposting with stackoverflow is allowed here but essentially my problem is explained in https://stackoverflow.com/questions/46162104/django-dynamic-model-fields-and-migrations. What I want to create is a custom ModelField of type DecimalField, that dynamically adds another ModelField (CharField) to the source model. As far as I can tell, this is nicely explained in https://blog.elsdoerfer.name/2008/01/08/fuzzydates-or-one-django-model-field-multiple-database-columns/.
Let's assume I start with a fresh project and app and add this code to models.py: from django.db import models from django.db.models import signals _currency_field_name = lambda name: '{}_extension'.format(name) class PriceField(models.DecimalField): def contribute_to_class(self, cls, name): # add the extra currency field (CharField) to the class if not cls._meta.abstract: currency_field = models.CharField( max_length=3, editable=False, null=True, blank=True ) cls.add_to_class(_currency_field_name(name), currency_field) # add the original price field (DecimalField) to the class super().contribute_to_class(cls, name) # TODO: set the descriptor # setattr(cls, self.name, FooDescriptor(self)) class FooModel(models.Model): price = PriceField('agrhhhhh', decimal_places=3, max_digits=10, blank=True, null=True) If I then call *./manage.py makemigrations* the following migration file for the app is created: # Generated by Django 1.11.4 on 2017-09-11 18:02 from __future__ import unicode_literals from django.db import migrations, models import testing.models class Migration(migrations.Migration): initial = True dependencies = [ ] operations = [ migrations.CreateModel( name='FooModel', fields=[ ('id', models.AutoField(auto_created=True, primary_key=True, serialize=False, verbose_name='ID')), ('price', testing.models.PriceField(blank=True, decimal_places=3, max_digits=10, null=True, verbose_name='agrhhhhh')), ('price_extension', models.CharField(blank=True, editable=False, max_length=3, null=True)), ], ), ] All good, as far as I can tell. The problem comes up if I then call *./manage.py migrate* which errors with the following exception: ./manage.py migrate testing Operations to perform: Apply all migrations: testing Running migrations: Applying testing.0001_initial...Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/local/var/pyenv/versions/stockmanagement-3.6.2/lib/python3.6/site-packages/django/db/backends/utils.py", line 63, in execute return self.cursor.execute(sql) File "/usr/local/var/pyenv/versions/stockmanagement-3.6.2/lib/python3.6/site-packages/django/db/backends/sqlite3/base.py", line 326, in execute return Database.Cursor.execute(self, query) sqlite3.OperationalError: duplicate column name: price_extension The above exception was the direct cause of the following exception: Traceback (most recent call last): File "./manage.py", line 22, in <module> execute_from_command_line(sys.argv) File "/usr/local/var/pyenv/versions/stockmanagement-3.6.2/lib/python3.6/site-packages/django/core/management/__init__.py", line 363, in execute_from_command_line utility.execute() File "/usr/local/var/pyenv/versions/stockmanagement-3.6.2/lib/python3.6/site-packages/django/core/management/__init__.py", line 355, in execute self.fetch_command(subcommand).run_from_argv(self.argv) File "/usr/local/var/pyenv/versions/stockmanagement-3.6.2/lib/python3.6/site-packages/django/core/management/base.py", line 283, in run_from_argv self.execute(*args, **cmd_options) File "/usr/local/var/pyenv/versions/stockmanagement-3.6.2/lib/python3.6/site-packages/django/core/management/base.py", line 330, in execute output = self.handle(*args, **options) File "/usr/local/var/pyenv/versions/stockmanagement-3.6.2/lib/python3.6/site-packages/django/core/management/commands/migrate.py", line 204, in handle fake_initial=fake_initial, File "/usr/local/var/pyenv/versions/stockmanagement-3.6.2/lib/python3.6/site-packages/django/db/migrations/executor.py", line 115, in migrate state = self._migrate_all_forwards(state, plan, full_plan, fake=fake, fake_initial=fake_initial) File "/usr/local/var/pyenv/versions/stockmanagement-3.6.2/lib/python3.6/site-packages/django/db/migrations/executor.py", line 145, in _migrate_all_forwards state = self.apply_migration(state, migration, fake=fake, fake_initial=fake_initial) File "/usr/local/var/pyenv/versions/stockmanagement-3.6.2/lib/python3.6/site-packages/django/db/migrations/executor.py", line 244, in apply_migration state = migration.apply(state, schema_editor) File "/usr/local/var/pyenv/versions/stockmanagement-3.6.2/lib/python3.6/site-packages/django/db/migrations/migration.py", line 129, in apply operation.database_forwards(self.app_label, schema_editor, old_state, project_state) File "/usr/local/var/pyenv/versions/stockmanagement-3.6.2/lib/python3.6/site-packages/django/db/migrations/operations/models.py", line 97, in database_forwards schema_editor.create_model(model) File "/usr/local/var/pyenv/versions/stockmanagement-3.6.2/lib/python3.6/site-packages/django/db/backends/base/schema.py", line 303, in create_model self.execute(sql, params or None) File "/usr/local/var/pyenv/versions/stockmanagement-3.6.2/lib/python3.6/site-packages/django/db/backends/base/schema.py", line 120, in execute cursor.execute(sql, params) File "/usr/local/var/pyenv/versions/stockmanagement-3.6.2/lib/python3.6/site-packages/django/db/backends/utils.py", line 80, in execute return super(CursorDebugWrapper, self).execute(sql, params) File "/usr/local/var/pyenv/versions/stockmanagement-3.6.2/lib/python3.6/site-packages/cachalot/monkey_patch.py", line 113, in inner out = original(cursor, sql, *args, **kwargs) File "/usr/local/var/pyenv/versions/stockmanagement-3.6.2/lib/python3.6/site-packages/django/db/backends/utils.py", line 65, in execute return self.cursor.execute(sql, params) File "/usr/local/var/pyenv/versions/stockmanagement-3.6.2/lib/python3.6/site-packages/django/db/utils.py", line 94, in __exit__ six.reraise(dj_exc_type, dj_exc_value, traceback) File "/usr/local/var/pyenv/versions/stockmanagement-3.6.2/lib/python3.6/site-packages/django/utils/six.py", line 685, in reraise raise value.with_traceback(tb) File "/usr/local/var/pyenv/versions/stockmanagement-3.6.2/lib/python3.6/site-packages/django/db/backends/utils.py", line 63, in execute return self.cursor.execute(sql) File "/usr/local/var/pyenv/versions/stockmanagement-3.6.2/lib/python3.6/site-packages/django/db/backends/sqlite3/base.py", line 326, in execute return Database.Cursor.execute(self, query) django.db.utils.OperationalError: duplicate column name: price_extension As said, I have a fresh project with no exisiting DB and tables so far. Why is it complaining that there allready exista a column named "price_extension"?. The migration file only contains one field called "price_extension"? A sample project can be cloned from https://github.com/hetsch/django_testing. Thank you a lot for your help! -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/django-users. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/django-users/9ca1469c-abcb-4b30-a383-f4654f1705b2%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.