Tuesday, June 17, 2008

Abstract Base Classes vs Model Table Inheritance

by Kevin Fricovsky

With the recent QuerySet-Refactor branch merged into trunk the django developer community is finally gifted with one of the more popular, outstanding ticket requests they've been waiting for... model inheritance. Funny thing is people don't really seem to care, aren't ready to try it yet, or some don't fully grok it yet. Well, that's no good because it promotes code reuse, code reduction, and increases developer productivity. So let's take a look at the three existing options for extending your model classes, take a peek at what's going on in our database, and what type of syntactical sugar (or magic) are we gaining? Then you can make the decision as to which is best for you.

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Friday, December 21, 2007

Retrieving Selective Fields with Django

by Michael Trier

Today there was a question on the #django IRC channel from a user name “Joe” about how to go about retrieving selective fields from a table. The issue is that Joe wants to be able to get all Links that are tied to a specific Category but only retrieve select fields. You might want to do something like this if you needed to retrieve a subset of information and you wanted to keep from pulling particularly large fields like BLOBs or Text fields.

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