Django: Web Development with Python

Chapter 2. Database Structure

In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:

• Using model mixins
• Creating a model mixin with URL-related methods
• Creating a model mixin to handle creation and modification dates
• Creating a model mixin to take care of meta tags
• Creating a model mixin to handle generic relations
• Handling multilingual fields
• Using migrations
• Switching from South migrations to Django migrations
• Changing a foreign key to the many-to-many field

Introduction

When you start a new app, the first thing to do is create the models that represent your database structure. We are assuming that you have previously created Django apps or at least, you have read and understood the official Django tutorial. In this chapter, we will see a few interesting ...