DetailView get_template_name and get_context_object_name fail with deferred QuerySet

[Bertrand Bordage]

Suppose you define a view like this:

from django.views.generic import DetailView
from django.contrib.auth.models import User

class UserDetail(DetailView):
    model = User
    queryset = User.objects.defer('password')

If you try to use the view, the default template name is auth/user_deferred_password_detail.html instead of auth/user_detail.html.

This is because Django creates a proxy model each time you use defer/only. And therefore User.objects.defer('password')[0]._meta.model_name is 'user_deferred_password'.

DetailView.get_template_name should ckeck if model._deferred and use model._meta.proxy_for_model to get the original model.

[Bertrand Bordage]

Another consequence of that deferred proxy model is that (DetailView|ListView).context_object_name is also modified.

[Artis Avotins]

Submitted a pull request on GitHub fixing this issue. Didn't occur when using ListView though. ​https://github.com/django/django/pull/4546

[Bertrand Bordage]

Indeed, it’s not occurring using ListView. I assumed it would occur on it because I thought User.objects.defer('password') would be a queryset of the proxy model User_Deferred_password, but it’s not. It’s only once you get model instances that they use the proxy model.

Sorry for not checking :(