relate anything to anything
Project description
relate anything to anything
what it does
the purpose of this project is to allow you to create database-level relationships between various objects using a consistent api.
for a full tour of the api, the best place to look is the tests
example app
bundled with the source code is an example app which shows how generic-m2m can be used to create “tags” between models. it uses [nathanborror’s basic apps](https://github.com/nathanborror/django-basic-apps) with [django-completion](https://github.com/coleifer/django-completion) (shameless plug) to allow users to “autocomplete” various relationships between models, so if I’m a user and want to create a new blog post I can tag it with relationships to objects representing a city, a person, a funny photo of a cat, etc:
quick overview
say you have a couple models:
class Food(models.Model): name = models.CharField(max_length=255) related = RelatedObjectsDescriptor() def __unicode__(self): return self.name class Beverage(models.Model): name = models.CharField(max_length=255) related = RelatedObjectsDescriptor() def __unicode__(self): return self.name
Here’s a sample interactive interpreter session to show the basic API:
>>> pizza = Food.objects.create(name='pizza') >>> pepperoni = Food.objects.create(name='pepperoni') >>> beer = Beverage.objects.create(name='beer') >>> soda = Beverage.objects.create(name='soda') >>> pizza.related.connect(pepperoni) <RelatedObject: pizza related to pepperoni ("")> >>> pizza.related.connect(beer) <RelatedObject: pizza related to beer ("")> >>> pepperoni.related.related_to() [<RelatedObject: pizza related to pepperoni ("")>] >>> pizza.related.all() [<RelatedObject: pizza related to beer ("")>, <RelatedObject: pizza related to pepperoni ("")>] >>> pizza.related.all().generic_objects() [<Beverage: beer>, <Food: pepperoni>] >>> Food.related.all() [<RelatedObject: pizza related to beer ("")>, <RelatedObject: pizza related to pepperoni ("")>]
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