#16508: Provide real support for virtual fields
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Reporter: vzima | Owner: pirosb3
Type: New feature | Status: assigned
Component: Database layer | Version: master
(models, ORM) |
Severity: Normal | Resolution:
Keywords: | Triage Stage: Accepted
Has patch: 0 | Needs documentation: 0
Needs tests: 0 | Patch needs improvement: 0
Easy pickings: 0 | UI/UX: 0
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Comment (by koniiiik):
Heh, this is skipping a bit further ahead; I would prefer to finish the
work on `ForeignKey` before moving on to `CompositeField`, and
`ForeignKey` itself will take quite some time. However, since you have
already brought it up...
As far as I recall, I implemented `CompositeField` as a descriptor that
dynamically constructed a `CompositeValue` on read, and unpacked any tuple
/ iterable into individual values on write, but that was it; the
`CompositeValue` itself was just a namedtuple, so it didn't act as a proxy
for the value on the model instance itself. So in your example,
`u1.full_name.first_name` would be a read-only item.
I think that is a reasonable restriction; trying to turn a composite value
into some kind of proxy object might be a fun exercise, but it would
require some amount of descriptor hacking, and I honestly don't see enough
value in it that would make it worth the complexity.
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