Abstract models and the app registry

2015-02-11 Thread Alexander Hill
Hi all, I'm looking for some background about abstract models, specifically why they aren't registered with the app registry as normal models are. For some context, I'm working on a ticket [0] to refactor Django's lazy model operations (used e.g. to resolve string references in related fields). T

Re: Abstract models and the app registry

2015-02-11 Thread Carl Meyer
Hi Alex, On 02/11/2015 11:39 AM, Alexander Hill wrote: > I'm looking for some background about abstract models, specifically why > they aren't registered with the app registry as normal models are. > > For some context, I'm working on a ticket [0] to refactor Django's lazy > model operations (use

Re: Abstract models and the app registry

2015-02-11 Thread Alex Hill
Hi Carl, Thanks for getting back to me. That all makes sense. I'm still curious as to why abstracts aren't registered – is that a requirement of some feature of the app registry design, or is it just that way because? I think what I would like to do is just declare that string references in r

Re: Abstract models and the app registry

2015-02-12 Thread Carl Meyer
On 02/11/2015 08:17 PM, Alex Hill wrote: > I'm still curious as to why abstracts aren't registered – is that a > requirement of some feature of the app registry design, or is it just > that way because? I think it's just a natural consequence of not considering them to be real models. One practic