problems with orm and multi-table inheritance

[bas@…]

Hi,

I'm trying to do some data migration using model class (for example, Restaurant) that inherits from other non-abstract model (for example, Place) in a multi-table inheritance mode. In South migration file I do:

   restaurants = orm.Restaurant.filter(field1='blabla')

If field1 belongs to Restaurant model then it works just fine. But if field1 belongs to Place then that line fails with:

django.core.exceptions.FieldError: Cannot resolve keyword 'field1' into field. Choices are: ...Restaurant only fields listed here...

It works perfectly in real Django orm world.

Let me know if you need me to attach a real example.

Thank you.

[bas@…]

I found a workaround,

If parent_link in Restaurant (OneToOneField? link to base Place model) is defined as:

place = models.OneToOneField(Place, related_name='restaurant', parent_link=True)

and you want to filter by Place's field1 just do:

restaurants = orm.Restaurant.filter(place__field1='blabla')

It works to any level of inheritance.

Anyway, it would be good to replicate how Django handles base model fields filtering in South.

[andrew]

Yes, I think this is another slight imperfection of the ORM. I'll schedule it for fixing in the upcoming 0.7.

[andrew]

This has been fixed along with #182 in [237ca3bb6d5d].