Django in Depth

by James Bennet

I was trying to fix some problems at work so my notes here are amazingly incomplete.

Model Inheritence

  • Abstract/concrete
    • ye aulde abstract = True
    • Use cases: common field sets and/or methods and/or META declarations
  • DB level
    • No special mechanism. Just subclass a model
    • You can’t directly subclass
    • Always implemented as multi-table
    • Has OneToOne key to parent
    • Good for modeling the “is-a” relationship
    • I don’t like it and neither does James Bennet
  • Python level inheritence
    • proxy = True
    • Will use the parent’s table
    • Must have one abstract parent
    • use cases: Adding methods to existing models, adding managers or changing Meta behavior

Django Views

  • SystemExit is not caught by Django, otherwise can be caught
  • Exceptions raised by exception middleware or 404 pages
  • Deliberately uses empty Context because nothing about the Context can be trusted.

AdminSite

Here we go!

Overriding templates