Welcome to djeneralize’s documentation!

Overview

The aim of djeneralize is to enhance Django’s model-inheritance and allow the user to declare specializations of a general case model and then query the generalized model, but returns instances of the specialized model, e.g.:

>>> Fruit.objects.all()
[<Fruit: Rosy apple>, <Fruit: Bendy banana>, <Fruit: Sweet clementine>]
>>> Fruit.specializations.all()
[<Apple: Rosy apple>, <Banana: Bendy banana>, <Clementine: Sweet clementine>]

Contents

• Terminology used in this documentation
  • Worked example
• Introduction
  • What we get from Django
  • What djeneralize does to extend Django’s functionality
• Defining models with specializations
  • Example models
  • Derive your model from BaseGeneralizationModel
  • Set up the specialization for your models
• Querying specialized models
  • The specializations manager
  • Converting a general case model instance into a specialized model instance
• API Documentation
  • djeneralize
  • fields
  • manager
  • models
  • query
  • utils
• Changelog for djeneralize
  • Version 1.3 Final (2015-11-04)
  • Version 1.3 Release Candidate 2
  • Version 1.3 Release Candidate 1
  • Version 1.2 Release Candidate 1
  • Version 1.2 Beta 1
  • Version 1.1
• TODO list
  • Add annotations
  • Deferred loading of fields

Indices and tables

• Index
• Module Index
• Search Page