Tag "common"

DRY with common model fields (another way)

Some time you want to add some common fields to a group of models, for example, in a **Generalization/Specialization** relationship. One could have a base model as the generalization class and specialized models with a foreign key to that base model with an unique attribute but I don't like it that way so, I just do this code to add some commons attributes to a lot of models. If you have many models that all share the same fields, this might be an option. The fields are added directly to each model, e.g. while they will be duplicated on the database level, you only have to define them once in your **python** code. This code is a cleaner way(I think!!!) to do it and will do the same that [this one](http://www.djangosnippets.org/snippets/317/). I hope this piece of code will be useful for you.