Loading docs/model-api.txt +11 −3 Original line number Diff line number Diff line Loading @@ -784,9 +784,17 @@ you can use the name of the model, rather than the model object itself:: class Manufacturer(models.Model): # ... Note, however, that you can only use strings to refer to models in the same models.py file -- you cannot use a string to reference a model in a different application, or to reference a model that has been imported from elsewhere. Note, however, that this only refers to models in the same models.py file -- you cannot use a string to reference a model defined in another application or imported from elsewhere. **New in Django development version:** to refer to models defined in another application, you must instead explicitially specify the application label. That is, if the ``Manufacturer`` model above is defined in another application called ``production``, you'd need to use:: class Car(models.Model): manufacturer = models.ForeignKey('production.Manufacturer') Behind the scenes, Django appends ``"_id"`` to the field name to create its database column name. In the above example, the database table for the ``Car`` Loading Loading
docs/model-api.txt +11 −3 Original line number Diff line number Diff line Loading @@ -784,9 +784,17 @@ you can use the name of the model, rather than the model object itself:: class Manufacturer(models.Model): # ... Note, however, that you can only use strings to refer to models in the same models.py file -- you cannot use a string to reference a model in a different application, or to reference a model that has been imported from elsewhere. Note, however, that this only refers to models in the same models.py file -- you cannot use a string to reference a model defined in another application or imported from elsewhere. **New in Django development version:** to refer to models defined in another application, you must instead explicitially specify the application label. That is, if the ``Manufacturer`` model above is defined in another application called ``production``, you'd need to use:: class Car(models.Model): manufacturer = models.ForeignKey('production.Manufacturer') Behind the scenes, Django appends ``"_id"`` to the field name to create its database column name. In the above example, the database table for the ``Car`` Loading