I want to set the db_table Meta class attribute in a base class so that all inherited classes will have their names in it, similar to how Django treats related_name model field attribute:
class BaseModel(models.Model):
class Meta:
db_table = 'prefix_%(class)s'
So the inherited model:
class SubModel(BaseModel):
pass
will have db table prefix_submodel.
Is that possible? Can the Meta class access the inheriting class' model name?
No. You can't do that. It is not that simple to have same table to store for multiple classes.
What you need is probably djeneralize project.
From the examples:
class Fruit(BaseGeneralizedModel):
name = models.CharField(max_length=30)
def __unicode__(self):
return self.name
class Apple(Fruit):
radius = models.IntegerField()
class Meta:
specialization = 'apple'
class Banana(Fruit):
curvature = models.DecimalField(max_digits=3, decimal_places=2)
class Meta:
specialization = 'banana'
class Clementine(Fruit):
pips = models.BooleanField(default=True)
class Meta:
specialization = 'clementine'
which then allows the following queries to be executed:
>>> Fruit.objects.all() # what we've got at the moment
[<Fruit: Rosy apple>, <Fruit: Bendy banana>, <Fruit: Sweet
clementine>]
>>> Fruit.specializations.all() # the new stuff!
[<Apple: Rosy apple>, <Banana: Bendy banana>, <Clementine: Sweet
clementine>]
djeneralize does is impressive. imo, it should be in the core of django. but what i want is to simply set a prefix for the table names that are inherited from the same model.
TypeError: format requires a mappingduring syncdb.