Django: Web Development with Python

Extending models

The inheritance model allows the use of common fields for two different models. For example, in our App_user model, we cannot determine whether a random recording will be a developer or supervisor.

One solution would be to create two different models, but we would have to duplicate all the common fields such as name, username, and password, as follows:

class Supervisor(models.Model):
  # Duplicated common fields
  specialisation = models.CharField(max_length=50, verbose_name="Specialisation")

class Developer(models.Model):
  # Duplicated common fields
  supervisor = models.ForeignKey(Supervisor, verbose_name="Supervisor")

It would be a shame to duplicate the code, but it is the principle that Django and DRY have to follow. That is why there ...