Hi there,
In my existing application, I have a user object/table to track all of our
users. Users optionally have a foreign_info object with them too, if
they are foreigners.
So it's a one-to-one relationship. Here's simplified:
class User:
userbase_id = ... the primary key
lots of other fields
class ForeignInfo:
userbase_id = ... also primary key
lots of other fields
My current goal is making the admin page look like I want it to, and I
want to be able to look at the foreign information while editing the user
object.
In my current framework, I had a functionality for a ForeignField, in the
User class, so the foreign fields simply appeared as fields in the User
object. Is there a way to do that in django, something like:
class User:
country_of_birth = ForeignField(ForeignInfo)
passport_number = ForeignField(ForeignInfo)
So then it just gets the field from the other object. Right now it just
seems that I can do:
foreign_info = OneToOneField(ForeignInfo)
But then there's weirdness because it expects foreign_info_id to be the ID
field. Is there a way to get around that, because that's a pretty huge
assumption?? For existing applications.
The difference between this and the Place/Restaurant example on the
website is that I never care solely about the ForeignInfo, it's only as
additional information to the "parent object" User.
And then how on the admin site do I make the foreign information editable
along with the User object? I want it to look like the Poll/Choices
example in the tutorial, but that's of course with a one-many relation.
It can look like that but with num_in_admin=1.
I'm using the magic-removal branch. Speaking of, does num_in_admin
work differently in that branch?
Thanks
Alan
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