#28563: Allow parent relations to specify the related_name of a class property
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               Reporter:  Samuel Spencer  |          Owner:  nobody
                   Type:  New feature     |         Status:  new
              Component:  Uncategorized   |        Version:  1.11
               Severity:  Normal          |       Keywords:
           Triage Stage:  Unreviewed      |      Has patch:  0
    Needs documentation:  0               |    Needs tests:  0
Patch needs improvement:  0               |  Easy pickings:  1
                  UI/UX:  0               |
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 I can't come up with an appropriate example, so I'll use a cut back
 version of actual code. I'm trying to implement an ISO standard, and am
 using a concrete base class, with a number of relations between objects,
 as shown below. Unfortunately, the names of these objects and relations
 are defined by the spec and can't be changed without a lot of hassle.

 {{{

 class Metadata(models.Model):
     name = models.CharField(max_length=255)

 class Property(Metadata):
     pass

 class ObjectClass(Metadata):
     pass

 class DataElementConcept(Metadata):
     object_class = models.ForeignKey(ObjectClass)
     property= models.ForeignKey(Property)

 }}}

 However, the system checker has a problem with this:

 {{{
 SystemCheckError: System check identified some issues:

 ERRORS:
 aristotle_mdr.DataElementConcept.property: (models.E006) The field
 'property' clashes with the field 'property' from model
 'aristotle_mdr._concept'.
 }}}

 What appears to happen is that DataElementConcept.property (a relation
 between two pieces of metadata) is clashing with MetadataItem.property (a
 relation from parent class to child class).

 Since a parent-child relationship using inheritance is just a
 OneToOneField thats made by
 
[https://github.com/django/django/blob/5cc746206726c538c36a2830e7c068f1c8a0e7c8/django/db/models/base.py#L234
 django.db.models.base.ModelBase] it'd be nice to be able to add some
 details to a classes Meta field to change the related_name of the
 generated field, for example:

 {{{

 class Metadata(models.Model):
     name = models.CharField(max_length=255)

 class Property(Metadata):
     class Meta:
         parent_related_name = "property_subclass"

 }}}

 and the ModelBase coude would be similar to:

 {{{
                     field = OneToOneField(
                         base,
                         on_delete=CASCADE,
                         name=attr_name,
                         auto_created=True,
                         parent_link=True,
                         related_name=base._meta.parent_related_name
                     )
 }}}

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Ticket URL: <https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/28563>
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