Question

is there a link or tutorial on how to inherit an objects in django? let us say that i have a vehicle as a parent and a car and a truck for it’s child.

if it is possible, is it done in the models.py?
and how is it work?

thanks…

Answer 1

Exactly the same as python inheritence

class Vehicle(Model):
    name = models.TextField()

class Car(Vehicle):
    passengers = PositiveIntegerField()

class Truck(Vehicle):
    tonnage = FloatField()

>>> Car.objects.create(name='Beetle', passengers = 5)
<Car: name="Beetle",passengers=5>
>>> Truck.objects.create(name='Mack', tonnage=4.5)
<Truck: name="Mack,tonnage=4.5>
>>> Vehicle.objects.all()
[<Vehicle: name="Beetle">,<Vehicle: name="Mack>]
>>> v = Vehicle.objects.get(name='Beetle')
>>> (bool(v.car), bool(v.truck))
(True, False)
>>> v.car
<Car: name="Beetle",passengers=5>
>>> v.truck
None

https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/topics/db/models/#model-inheritance