Question

How to make entry.category to be instance of CategoryProxy? See code for details:

class Category(models.Model): pass

class Entry(models.Model):
    category = models.ForeignKey(Category)

class EntryProxy(Entry):
    class Meta:
        proxy = True

class CategoryProxy(Category):
    class Meta:
        proxy = True

entry = EntryProxy.objects.get(pk=1)
entry.category # !!! I want CategoryProxy instance here

Cast from Category to CategoryProxy is ok too, but I am not very familiar with ORM internals to properly copy internal state…

EDIT.
Reason: I added method to CategoryProxy and want to use him:

EntryProxy.objects.get(pk=1).category.method_at_category_proxy()

EDIT 2.
Currently I implemented it like this:

EntryProxy._meta.get_field_by_name('category')[0].rel.to = CategoryProxy

but it looks terrible…

Answer 1

To switch from a model class to a proxy class without hitting the database:

class EntryProxy(Entry):
    @property
    def category(self):
        new_inst = EntryProxy()
        new_inst.__dict__ = super(EntryProxy, self).category.__dict__
        return new_inst

edit: the snippet above seems not working on django 1.4.

Since django 1.4, I take all value fields manually like this:

class EntryProxy(Entry):
    @property
    def category(self):
        category = super(EntryProxy, self).category
        new_inst = EntryProxy()
        for attr in [f.attname for f in category.__class__._meta.fields] + ['_state']:
            setattr(new_inst, attr, getattr(category, attr))
        return new_inst

To switch from a queryset to a child proxy class without hitting database:

class CategoryProxy(Category):
    @property
    def entry_set(self):
        qs = super(CategoryProxy, self).entry_set
        qs.model = EntryProxy
        return qs