another option could be use the contenttype framework, it's not well documented but using the source and examples could help, take a look here http://feh.holsman.net/articles/2006/06/03/django-contenttype to get an idea about the framework and links to examples.
Regards, Ali On 6/4/07, Joseph Heck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > If it's the *same* information, then use a foreign-key relationship. > If it's different information, then it needs to be stored separately, > and defining that on the models is a good way of doing that. > > You can shoot yourself in the foot by trying to re-use too much as > well as too-little. It is ultimatley a tradeoff choice that you need > to make for your own code. > > -joe > > On 6/4/07, Lic. José M. Rodriguez Bacallao <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > that is repeating a lot of common information about my models, what > about > > DRY, reusing, etc? > > > > On 6/4/07, Joseph Heck < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > Maybe a foreign key relationship would work, but you might just > > > consider adding all those attributes to each model. Unless you think > > > you'll end with really sparse tables, it may be worth it for the > > > simplicity. > > > > > > You wouldn't want to use a one-to-one table for common elements among > > > different models. > > > > > > -joe > > > > > > On 6/4/07, Lic. José M. Rodriguez Bacallao <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Hi for everyone. I'm stuck with django, I want to represent this > > situation: > > > > > > > > I have a lot of content types like, news, images, urls, etc. All of > them > > > > have common attributres like creation date, expiration date, > publication > > > > date, title and so on. The problem is how to represent this with > django > > > > models so I don't have to repeat all of those attributes in all > models. > > > > Until now, I represented this situation like a > > Generalization/Specialization > > > > relationship with a on-to-one relation but I don't want to use it > due to > > > > this relation is going to change in future versions of django so, I > > don't > > > > know what to do, anyone could help me? > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > > Lic. José M. Rodriguez Bacallao > > > > Informatics Science University > > > > Habana-Cuba. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > Lic. José M. Rodriguez Bacallao > > Cupet > > > > > > > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
