Opened 13 years ago

Closed 8 years ago

#14887 closed New feature (duplicate)

select_related() does not work with Proxy models and multi-table inheritance

Reported by: Ara Anjargolian <ara818@…> Owned by: nobody
Component: Database layer (models, ORM) Version: 1.2
Severity: Normal Keywords: proxy select_related inheritance
Cc: flisky Triage Stage: Accepted
Has patch: no Needs documentation: no
Needs tests: no Patch needs improvement: no
Easy pickings: no UI/UX: no

Description

Consider the following models

class TumbleItem(models.Model):
    tumblr_id = models.CharField(max_length=64, editable=False, null=True)
    pub_date = models.DateTimeField(default=datetime.datetime.now)
    format = models.CharField(max_length=10, choices=FORMAT_CHOICES, default='html')
    display_status = models.CharField(max_length=10, choices=DISPLAY_STATUS_CHOICES, default='public')
    tags = TaggableManager()

    # this is for magic later and makes doing lookups both easier and lazier.
    content_type = models.ForeignKey(ContentType, editable=False, null=True)
    object_id = models.PositiveIntegerField(db_index=True, editable=False, null=True)
    object = generic.GenericForeignKey(ct_field="content_type", fk_field="object_id")


class Regular(TumbleItem):
    title = models.CharField(max_length=250, blank=True)
    body = models.TextField()


class StoryItem(TumbleItem):
    class Meta:
        proxy = True
        
    def _slug(self):
        '''
        strip out extra punctuation and create a slug
        '''
        slug = ''
        if self.object.title != '':
            slug = base.get_base_term(self.object.title)
        return slug
    slug = property(_slug)

To access data stored in Regular efficiently, a select_related would be useful. While a select_related has the expected behavior when using TumbleItem, using the proxy model StoryItem it breaks. I would expect them to have the exact same behavior. See below

>>> print TumbleItem.objects.select_related('regular').query
SELECT `djumblr_tumbleitem`.`id`, `djumblr_tumbleitem`.`tumblr_id`, `djumblr_tumbleitem`.`pub_date`, `djumblr_tumbleitem`.`format`, `djumblr_tumbleitem`.`display_status`, `djumblr_tumbleitem`.`content_type_id`, `djumblr_tumbleitem`.`object_id`, `djumblr_regular`.`tumbleitem_ptr_id`, `djumblr_regular`.`title`, `djumblr_regular`.`body` FROM `djumblr_tumbleitem` LEFT OUTER JOIN `djumblr_regular` ON (`djumblr_tumbleitem`.`id` = `djumblr_regular`.`tumbleitem_ptr_id`) ORDER BY `djumblr_tumbleitem`.`pub_date` DESC

>>> print StoryItem.objects.select_related('regular').query
SELECT `djumblr_tumbleitem`.`id`, `djumblr_tumbleitem`.`tumblr_id`, `djumblr_tumbleitem`.`pub_date`, `djumblr_tumbleitem`.`format`, `djumblr_tumbleitem`.`display_status`, `djumblr_tumbleitem`.`content_type_id`, `djumblr_tumbleitem`.`object_id` FROM `djumblr_tumbleitem` ORDER BY `djumblr_tumbleitem`.`pub_date` DESC

Change History (7)

comment:1 by Ara Anjargolian <ara818@…>, 13 years ago

Component: UncategorizedDatabase layer (models, ORM)
Keywords: proxy select_related inheritance added

comment:2 by Russell Keith-Magee, 13 years ago

Triage Stage: UnreviewedAccepted

comment:3 by James Addison, 13 years ago

Severity: Normal
Type: New feature

This would be a nice-to-have addition to existing functionality - marking as 'new feature'.

comment:4 by Aymeric Augustin, 12 years ago

UI/UX: unset

Change UI/UX from NULL to False.

comment:5 by Aymeric Augustin, 12 years ago

Easy pickings: unset

Change Easy pickings from NULL to False.

comment:6 by flisky, 12 years ago

Cc: flisky added

comment:7 by Tim Graham, 8 years ago

Resolution: duplicate
Status: newclosed

Duplicate of #18012. The patch proposed on that ticket fixes this issue.

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