On Jan 26, 2008 8:11 AM, Chris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I am seeking to do something like this:
>
> def dynamic_model_call(model_name):
> test = model_name.objects.all()
> return test
>
This will work fine as long as you pass an actual model into the method:
>>> dynamic_model_call(Author)
If you want to be able to invoke something like:
>>> dynamic_model_call("Author")
(i.e., use the string version of the model name), all you need to do
use use the get_model() method that is part of the Django model
loader:
def dynamic_model_call(model_name):
model = get_model(*(model_name.split('.')))
return model.objects.all()
get_model takes two arguments - the application name and the model
name, so you will need to use a model name of "auth.User", not just
"User"
>>> dynamic_model_call('auth.User')
Alternatively, you could provide two arguments to dynamic_model_call
(app_name and model_name), or you could hard code the app_name into
the method.
Yours,
Russ Magee %-)
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