Thanks Jacob, looks like a good place to start. Doug
On Feb 18, 6:09 pm, Jacob Kaplan-Moss <jacob.kaplanm...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 6:10 PM, DougC <doug8...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Any thoughts from experienced Django developers? > > Two things you might want to look into: > > The first is model inheritance > (http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/topics/db/models/#id4). You > could, for example, have an abstract ``TrackedObject`` model and a set > of concrete subclasses for each type of thing to be tracked. > > Or, you might want to look at ``django.contrib.contenttypes`` > (http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/contrib/contenttypes/), > paying careful attention to generic relations > (http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/contrib/contenttypes/#id1). > This would let you have a generic ``TrackedObject`` object with a > (sort of) foreign key to *any* other object of any type. > > Jacob --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
