On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 7:40 PM, Michael Strickland <moriog...@gmail.com>wrote:
> > I currently have a base model called Content, with models such as > Article, Image, and Video subclassing Content. Currently, > get_absolute_url works only when it is located in Content - if I try > placing get_absolute_url in any of the inherited models, instead of > the base model, it returns an empty string. > > Can anyone confirm that it isn't possible to define an absolute url > for an inherited model? Or if it is possible, is there something > special I must do to allow this? > > Alternatively, would there be any way to include the model name in the > url? For example: > > /news/article/09/03/10/slug1 > /news/article/09/03/10/slug2 > /news/image/09/03/10/slug1 > > If I put the model name in get_absolute_url, then I would only need it > to be defined in the base model (I got this idea when I saw that you > could do something similar with "related_name" - you include (%class) > in the name, and it treats it as the class name. > > http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/topics/db/models/#be-careful-with-related-name > ). > Thing is, I haven't been able to find any documentation on using the > class name as a variable in this situation... > > Any thoughts? > > > Can you paste some of your code? It's my guess that the issue is that you need to reapply the permalink decorator on the inherited models methods. Alex -- "I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it." --Voltaire "The people's good is the highest law."--Cicero --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
