On Sun, Nov 2, 2008 at 4:52 AM, void <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Can someone point to the correct way to do this? > > Suppose i'm working in a tumblelog, it's basically , 4 o 5 tipes of > "post item" that share some cmmon information. > > So the first approach i would go is: > > cllass Post(models.Model): > here goes common metada of all things that can be "posted" like > taggin , dates, etc > > class TextPost(Post) > This model inherits all the metadata of the "normal" posteable > objects and add some of it's own like > > text = TexField() > > also we can provide a ImagePost(Post) with the same characteristics as > textpost, > > The caveat folllow: > > Inheritance gives me a reference in the "child" model to the pk of the > parent, that's ok. > But i have no way of iterating to Posts elements and instantiating > them osr seeing their attrs without knowing the correct nadme. > > Is any correct way to do this? will i have to hack django (or add a > field) that backreferences the reference? > > The idea is traverse only the Posts objects instead o N tables (1 for > each kinkd of post) >
See this thread for some ideas: http://groups.google.com/group/django-users/browse_thread/thread/f4241bc16455f92d/dcd2bfcc91d99cc9 -- Ramiro Morales --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
