class Animal(models.Model):....class Meta:abstract = Trueclass Cat(models.Model, Animal):...class Dog(models.Model, Animal):....
I want to be able to return all instances of querysets of all the subclasses of Animal. Lets say I have a function called allData
which returns an array/list of all the subclasses querysets.
For example:
x = animal.allData()[0] # should return the first element in the array.
I don't mind how we do this, using modules like django-model-utils
or not. I just want to be able to return all the subclasses querysets.
This is not possible in one query. You have two options, one use to use django-model-utils
or you can use django_polymorphic
.
Polymorphic is better suited to your task, however django-model-utils
is made by a very prominent member of the django community and as such has a lot of good support.
If I had to choose, I'd choose django-model-utils
since its made by a member of the django team, and thus will be supported. Polymorphic is supported by divio, which is a private company that heavily uses django based in Switzerland.
As for how to select Sub-classes. You need to do two things using django-model-utils
. Firstly, you need to change the objects
variable in your model to InheritanceManager()
like so (adapted from docs):
from model_utils.managers import InheritanceManagerclass Place(models.Model):# ...objects = InheritanceManager()class Restaurant(Place):# ...class Bar(Place):# ...nearby_places = Place.objects.filter(location='here').select_subclasses()
for place in nearby_places:# "place" will automatically be an instance of Place, Restaurant, or Bar
The code above will return all Bar
s and Restaurant
s because it uses the select_subclasses
.