#28563: Allow parent relations to specify the related_name of a class property
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Reporter: Samuel Spencer | Owner: tothegump
Type: New feature | Status: closed
Component: Uncategorized | Version: 1.11
Severity: Normal | Resolution: wontfix
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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Old description:
> I didn't even realise that was possible! Cheers.
New description:
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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Comment (by Samuel Spencer):
I didn't even realise that was possible! Cheers.
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Ticket URL: <https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/28563#comment:5>
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