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Fixed #10118 -- Clarified the error message raised when accessing a subclass model that doesn't exist. Thanks to peterbraden@peterbraden.co.uk for the suggestion. 

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Russell Keith-Magee 2009-02-22 06:07:47 +00:00
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@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ The basics:
* Each model is a Python class that subclasses
:class:`django.db.models.Model`.
* Each attribute of the model represents a database field.
* With all of this, Django gives you an automatically-generated
@ -58,10 +58,10 @@ Some technical notes:
* The name of the table, ``myapp_person``, is automatically derived from
some model metadata but can be overridden. See :ref:`table-names` for more
details..
* An ``id`` field is added automatically, but this behavior can be
overridden. See :ref:`automatic-primary-key-fields`.
* The ``CREATE TABLE`` SQL in this example is formatted using PostgreSQL
syntax, but it's worth noting Django uses SQL tailored to the database
backend specified in your :ref:`settings file <topics-settings>`.
@ -276,7 +276,7 @@ For example, if a ``Car`` model has a ``Manufacturer`` -- that is, a
class Car(models.Model):
manufacturer = models.ForeignKey(Manufacturer)
# ...
You can also create :ref:`recursive relationships <recursive-relationships>` (an
object with a many-to-one relationship to itself) and :ref:`relationships to
models not yet defined <lazy-relationships>`; see :ref:`the model field
@ -346,7 +346,7 @@ because it's more natural to think about a pizza having toppings than a
topping being on multiple pizzas. The way it's set up above, the ``Pizza`` admin
form would let users select the toppings.
.. seealso::
.. seealso::
See the `Many-to-many relationship model example`_ for a full example.
@ -372,13 +372,13 @@ For example, consider the case of an application tracking the musical groups
which musicians belong to. There is a many-to-many relationship between a person
and the groups of which they are a member, so you could use a
:class:`~django.db.models.ManyToManyField` to represent this relationship.
However, there is a lot of detail about the membership that you might want to
However, there is a lot of detail about the membership that you might want to
collect, such as the date at which the person joined the group.
For these situations, Django allows you to specify the model that will be used
to govern the many-to-many relationship. You can then put extra fields on the
intermediate model. The intermediate model is associated with the
:class:`~django.db.models.ManyToManyField` using the
:class:`~django.db.models.ManyToManyField` using the
:attr:`through <ManyToManyFields.through>` argument to point to the model
that will act as an intermediary. For our musician example, the code would look
something like this::
@ -402,7 +402,7 @@ something like this::
date_joined = models.DateField()
invite_reason = models.CharField(max_length=64)
When you set up the intermediary model, you explicitly specify foreign
When you set up the intermediary model, you explicitly specify foreign
keys to the models that are involved in the ManyToMany relation. This
explicit declaration defines how the two models are related.
@ -411,8 +411,8 @@ There are a few restrictions on the intermediate model:
* Your intermediate model must contain one - and *only* one - foreign key
to the target model (this would be ``Person`` in our example). If you
have more than one foreign key, a validation error will be raised.
* Your intermediate model must contain one - and *only* one - foreign key
* Your intermediate model must contain one - and *only* one - foreign key
to the source model (this would be ``Group`` in our example). If you
have more than one foreign key, a validation error will be raised.
@ -421,22 +421,22 @@ There are a few restrictions on the intermediate model:
case, two foreign keys to the same model are permitted, but they
will be treated as the two (different) sides of the many-to-many
relation.
* When defining a many-to-many relationship from a model to
itself, using an intermediary model, you *must* use
:attr:`symmetrical=False <ManyToManyFields.symmetrical>` (see
:attr:`symmetrical=False <ManyToManyFields.symmetrical>` (see
:ref:`the model field reference <manytomany-arguments>`).
Now that you have set up your :class:`~django.db.models.ManyToManyField` to use
your intermediary model (``Membership``, in this case), you're ready to start
creating some many-to-many relationships. You do this by creating instances of
the intermediate model::
>>> ringo = Person.objects.create(name="Ringo Starr")
>>> paul = Person.objects.create(name="Paul McCartney")
>>> beatles = Group.objects.create(name="The Beatles")
>>> m1 = Membership(person=ringo, group=beatles,
... date_joined=date(1962, 8, 16),
... date_joined=date(1962, 8, 16),
... invite_reason= "Needed a new drummer.")
>>> m1.save()
>>> beatles.members.all()
@ -444,7 +444,7 @@ the intermediate model::
>>> ringo.group_set.all()
[<Group: The Beatles>]
>>> m2 = Membership.objects.create(person=paul, group=beatles,
... date_joined=date(1960, 8, 1),
... date_joined=date(1960, 8, 1),
... invite_reason= "Wanted to form a band.")
>>> beatles.members.all()
[<Person: Ringo Starr>, <Person: Paul McCartney>]
@ -458,7 +458,7 @@ or assignment (i.e., ``beatles.members = [...]``) to create relationships::
>>> beatles.members.create(name="George Harrison")
# AND NEITHER WILL THIS
>>> beatles.members = [john, paul, ringo, george]
Why? You can't just create a relationship between a ``Person`` and a ``Group``
- you need to specify all the detail for the relationship required by the
``Membership`` model. The simple ``add``, ``create`` and assignment calls
@ -475,8 +475,8 @@ for an instance::
>>> beatles.members.clear()
Once you have established the many-to-many relationships by creating instances
of your intermediate model, you can issue queries. Just as with normal
many-to-many relationships, you can query using the attributes of the
of your intermediate model, you can issue queries. Just as with normal
many-to-many relationships, you can query using the attributes of the
many-to-many-related model::
# Find all the groups with a member whose name starts with 'Paul'
@ -490,7 +490,7 @@ As you are using an intermediate model, you can also query on its attributes::
... group__name='The Beatles',
... membership__date_joined__gt=date(1961,1,1))
[<Person: Ringo Starr]
One-to-one relationships
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
@ -668,15 +668,15 @@ below -- but there are a couple that you'll almost always want to define:
instance needs to be coerced and displayed as a plain string. Most
notably, this happens when you display an object in an interactive
console or in the admin.
You'll always want to define this method; the default isn't very helpful
at all.
:meth:`~Model.get_absolute_url`
This tells Django how to calculate the URL for an object. Django uses
this in its admin interface, and any time it needs to figure out a URL
for an object.
Any object that has a URL that uniquely identifies it should define this
method.
@ -927,7 +927,7 @@ of the model name::
However, if ``p`` in the above example was *not* a ``Restaurant`` (it had been
created directly as a ``Place`` object or was the parent of some other class),
referring to ``p.restaurant`` would give an error.
referring to ``p.restaurant`` would raise a Restaurant.DoesNotExist exception.
``Meta`` and multi-table inheritance
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
@ -985,7 +985,7 @@ As mentioned, Django will automatically create a
class back any non-abstract parent models. If you want to control the
name of the attribute linking back to the parent, you can create your
own :class:`~django.db.models.fields.OneToOneField` and set
:attr:`parent_link=True <django.db.models.fields.OneToOneField.parent_link>`
:attr:`parent_link=True <django.db.models.fields.OneToOneField.parent_link>`
to indicate that your field is the link back to the parent class.
Multiple inheritance