Changes between Version 56 and Version 57 of ModelInheritance


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Apr 30, 2008, 4:35:50 AM (17 years ago)
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Ramiro Morales
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    11= Model Inheritance =
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    3 '''As of 2008, both SQLObject and SQLAlchemy have sound and tested implementations of model inheritance. Whoever is or starts working on this should try to reuse their efforts.'''
     3== Current Status ==
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     5This was implemented into the queryset-refactoring branch that was merged into trunk in changeset r7477. See QuerysetRefactorBranch.
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     7''What follows in this page are opinions, notes and ramblings of some individuals regarding this topic collected since Aug. 2005.''
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     9== Misc. content ==
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     11As of 2008, both SQLObject and SQLAlchemy have sound and tested implementations of model inheritance. Whoever is or starts working on this should try to reuse their efforts.
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    513This is a proposal for how subclassing should work in Django. There are a lot of details to get right, so this proposal should be very specific and detailed. Most of the ideas here come from the thread linked below:
     
    1119[http://groups.google.com/group/django-developers/browse_frm/thread/9a9a2cfacce690d/dfcd5a71ba523534?q=Just+a+few+vague+notes&rnum=1#dfcd5a71ba523534 django-developers: Change subclassing syntax]
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    13 == Current Status ==
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    15 This was implemented into the queryset-refactoring branch in changeset r7126, there are still several bugs with it according to the commit notes.
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    17 == Subclassing ==
     21=== Subclassing ===
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    1923For subclassing, there are 3 main issues:
     
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    41 === 1. Modeling parent relations in SQL? ===
     45==== 1. Modeling parent relations in SQL? ====
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    4347The general consesus seems to be this:
     
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    92 === 2. Modeling joins in SQL ===
     96==== 2. Modeling joins in SQL ====
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    9498When we want a list of {{{ItalianRestaurant}}}s, we obviously need all the fields from myapp_restaurant and myapp_place as well. This could be accomplished by inner joins. It would look something like this:
     
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    223 === 3. API ===
     227==== 3. API ====
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    225229The following API examples assume we have created these objects:
     
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    247 == Change the current usage of subclassing ==
     251=== Change the current usage of subclassing ===
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    269 == Ramblings on Magic Removal Subclassing from the Pycon Sprint ==
     273=== Ramblings on Magic Removal Subclassing from the Pycon Sprint ===
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    271275Consider the following variation on the above restaurant example:
     
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    318 == Mixins ==
     322=== Mixins ===
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    319324here are two scenarios where mixins would be useful (to me).
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