Question

I’m trying to implement tree-like comments for my django projects. Each comment can be replied and is saved as given comment child.

comment 1
|- reply 1 to comment 1
|- reply 2 to comment 1
|- reply 3 to comment 1
   |- reply 1 to reply 3 to comment 1
   |- reply 2 to reply 3 to comment 1
comment 2
|- reply 1 to comment 2
... and so on ...

Here is my model:

class Comment(models.Model):
    author              = models.ForeignKey(User)
    parent              = models.ForeignKey(Comment, blank=True) #
    text                = models.TextField()
    created             = models.DateTimeField()
    updated             = models.DateTimeField(blank=True)

Is this the way to go, or am I reinventing the wheel? I’m sure that this is typical enough case so there are built in solutions for something like that? Thank you.

Answer 1

Those are called threaded comments. It’s not built in, but here’s an app for that which you could

• a. use
• b. learn from to roll your own

https://github.com/ericflo/django-threadedcomments