Generic Model

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from django.db import models

class GenericModel(models.Model):
	app_name = models.CharField(maxlength=64)
	model_name = models.CharField(maxlength=64)
	object_id = models.IntegerField()
	
	def get_model_class(self):
		return models.get_model(self.app_name, self.model_name)
	
	def get_this_object(self):
		return self.get_model_class()._default_manager.get(**kwargs)
	
	def __str__(self):
		return self.get_this_object().__str__()

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Comments

ubernostrum (on March 1, 2007):

Also, note that the GenericForeignKey field included in Django allows a fairly clean implementation of this.

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