How to use dynamic foreignkey in Django?
Here is how I do it:
from django.contrib.contenttypes.models import ContentType
from django.contrib.contenttypes import fields
class Photo(models.Model):
picture = models.ImageField(null=True, upload_to='./images/')
caption = models.CharField(_("Optional caption"),max_length=100,null=True, blank=True)
content_type = models.ForeignKey(ContentType)
object_id = models.PositiveIntegerField()
content_object = fields.GenericForeignKey('content_type', 'object_id')
class Article(models.Model):
....
images = fields.GenericRelation(Photo)
You would add something like
content_type = models.ForeignKey(ContentType)
object_id = models.PositiveIntegerField()
content_object = fields.GenericForeignKey('content_type', 'object_id')
to Faves and
fields.GenericRelation(Faves)
to Article and Cast
contenttypes docs
Here's an approach. (Note that the models are singular, Django automatically pluralizes for you.)
class Article(models.Model):
title = models.CharField(max_length=100)
body = models.TextField()
class Cast(models.Model):
title = models.CharField(max_length=100)
body = models.TextField()
FAVE_CHOICES = (
('A','Article'),
('C','Cast'),
)
class Fave(models.Model):
type_of_fave = models.CharField( max_length=1, choices=FAVE_CHOICES )
cast = models.ForeignKey(Casts,null=True)
article= models.ForeigKey(Articles,null=True)
user = models.ForeignKey(User,unique=True)
This rarely presents profound problems. It may require some clever class methods, depending on your use cases.