# -*- coding: utf-8 -*- """ Seamless Polymorphic Inheritance for Django Models ================================================== Please see README.rst and DOCS.rst for further information. Or on the Web: http://bserve.webhop.org/wiki/django_polymorphic http://github.com/bconstantin/django_polymorphic http://bitbucket.org/bconstantin/django_polymorphic Copyright: This code and affiliated files are (C) by Bert Constantin and individual contributors. Please see LICENSE and AUTHORS for more information. """ from pprint import pprint import sys from compatibility_tools import defaultdict from django.db import models from django.contrib.contenttypes.models import ContentType from django import VERSION as django_VERSION from base import PolymorphicModelBase from manager import PolymorphicManager from query import PolymorphicQuerySet from showfields import ShowFieldType ################################################################################### ### PolymorphicModel class PolymorphicModel(models.Model): """ Abstract base class that provides polymorphic behaviour for any model directly or indirectly derived from it. For usage instructions & examples please see documentation. PolymorphicModel declares one field for internal use (polymorphic_ctype) and provides a polymorphic manager as the default manager (and as 'objects'). PolymorphicModel overrides the save() method. If your derived class overrides save() as well, then you need to take care that you correctly call the save() method of the superclass, like: super(YourClass,self).save(*args,**kwargs) """ __metaclass__ = PolymorphicModelBase # for PolymorphicModelBase, so it can tell which models are polymorphic and which are not (duck typing) polymorphic_model_marker = True # for PolymorphicQuery, True => an overloaded __repr__ with nicer multi-line output is used by PolymorphicQuery polymorphic_query_multiline_output = False class Meta: abstract = True # avoid ContentType related field accessor clash (an error emitted by model validation) # we really should use both app_label and model name, but this is only possible since Django 1.2 if django_VERSION[0] <= 1 and django_VERSION[1] <= 1: p_related_name_template = 'polymorphic_%(class)s_set' else: p_related_name_template = 'polymorphic_%(app_label)s.%(class)s_set' polymorphic_ctype = models.ForeignKey(ContentType, null=True, editable=False, related_name=p_related_name_template) # some applications want to know the name of the fields that are added to its models polymorphic_internal_model_fields = [ 'polymorphic_ctype' ] objects = PolymorphicManager() base_objects = models.Manager() def pre_save_polymorphic(self): """Normally not needed. This function may be called manually in special use-cases. When the object is saved for the first time, we store its real class in polymorphic_ctype. When the object later is retrieved by PolymorphicQuerySet, it uses this field to figure out the real class of this object (used by PolymorphicQuerySet._get_real_instances) """ if not self.polymorphic_ctype: self.polymorphic_ctype = ContentType.objects.get_for_model(self) def save(self, *args, **kwargs): """Overridden model save function which supports the polymorphism functionality (through pre_save_polymorphic).""" self.pre_save_polymorphic() return super(PolymorphicModel, self).save(*args, **kwargs) def get_real_instance_class(self): """Normally not needed. If a non-polymorphic manager (like base_objects) has been used to retrieve objects, then the real class/type of these objects may be determined using this method.""" # the following line would be the easiest way to do this, but it produces sql queries #return self.polymorphic_ctype.model_class() # so we use the following version, which uses the CopntentType manager cache return ContentType.objects.get_for_id(self.polymorphic_ctype_id).model_class() def get_real_instance(self): """Normally not needed. If a non-polymorphic manager (like base_objects) has been used to retrieve objects, then the complete object with it's real class/type and all fields may be retrieved with this method. Each method call executes one db query (if necessary).""" real_model = self.get_real_instance_class() if real_model == self.__class__: return self return real_model.objects.get(pk=self.pk) def __init__(self, * args, ** kwargs): """Replace Django's inheritance accessors member functions for our model (self.__class__) with our own versions. We monkey patch them until a patch can be added to Django (which would probably be very small and make all of this obsolete). If we have inheritance of the form ModelA -> ModelB ->ModelC then Django creates accessors like this: - ModelA: modelb - ModelB: modela_ptr, modelb, modelc - ModelC: modela_ptr, modelb, modelb_ptr, modelc These accessors allow Django (and everyone else) to travel up and down the inheritance tree for the db object at hand. The original Django accessors use our polymorphic manager. But they should not. So we replace them with our own accessors that use our appropriate base_objects manager. """ super(PolymorphicModel, self).__init__(*args, ** kwargs) if self.__class__.polymorphic_super_sub_accessors_replaced: return self.__class__.polymorphic_super_sub_accessors_replaced = True def create_accessor_function_for_model(model, accessor_name): def accessor_function(self): attr = model.base_objects.get(pk=self.pk) return attr return accessor_function subclasses_and_superclasses_accessors = self.get_inheritance_relation_fields_and_models() from django.db.models.fields.related import SingleRelatedObjectDescriptor, ReverseSingleRelatedObjectDescriptor for name,model in subclasses_and_superclasses_accessors.iteritems(): orig_accessor = getattr(self.__class__, name, None) if type(orig_accessor) in [SingleRelatedObjectDescriptor,ReverseSingleRelatedObjectDescriptor]: #print >>sys.stderr, '---------- replacing',name, orig_accessor setattr(self.__class__, name, property(create_accessor_function_for_model(model, name)) ) def get_inheritance_relation_fields_and_models(self): """helper function for __init__: determine names of all Django inheritance accessor member functions for type(self)""" def add_model(model, as_ptr, result): name = model.__name__.lower() if as_ptr: name+='_ptr' result[name] = model def add_model_if_regular(model, as_ptr, result): if ( issubclass(model, models.Model) and model != models.Model and model != self.__class__ and model != PolymorphicModel ): add_model(model,as_ptr,result) def add_all_super_models(model, result): add_model_if_regular(model, True, result) for b in model.__bases__: add_all_super_models(b, result) def add_all_sub_models(model, result): for b in model.__subclasses__(): add_model_if_regular(b, False, result) result = {} add_all_super_models(self.__class__,result) add_all_sub_models(self.__class__,result) return result