> It would be a little fiddly to add, but not impossible. Not sure it's > really worth it for Django's core, however, since it's an edge-case and > ABC's are only a convenience, not a requirement.
Thanks Malcolm. That makes sense to me. I'm sure I could figure out how to do this in the fiddly bits, but right now I've got my hands full being a Django user! Cheers, psj On Jan 27, 11:23 pm, Malcolm Tredinnick <malc...@pointy-stick.com> wrote: > On Tue, 2009-01-27 at 11:19 -0800, psj wrote: > > Hi community -- > > > All my models have some common fields, say "created_date" and > > "last_modified_date". However, for various reasons not important here, > > we have some naming conventions on column names: we like them to have > > a prefix that pertains to the entity itself, so that the Account model > > has db_column="ac_created_date" and the Category model has > > db_column="ct_created_date". > > > It seems that the "common fields" scenario is a prime candidate for > > the Abstract Base Class model inheritance scenario, but I'm having > > some difficulty making the ABC mechanism work with these custom > > db_column values. > > > Creating a class method that returns the Model's preferred prefix > > doesn't seem to work, as the inherited models seem to get the prefix > > of the abstract class. > > > Am I missing a straightforward way of doing this? > > No, you're not missing a straightforward way. That behaviour isn't > supported. > > It would be a little fiddly to add, but not impossible. Not sure it's > really worth it for Django's core, however, since it's an edge-case and > ABC's are only a convenience, not a requirement. > > Regards, > Malcolm --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
