Monday, August 25, 2014

I started to split the pcsw.Client model into a “base” version and an extended version for Eupen.

While I was there I slightly changed the the API for defining overrideable library models using customizeable model abstractness:

• In lino.core.plugin.Plugin.extends_models the named models must not any more include the app_label. Until now you had to define:

  from lino.modlib.notes import Plugin
  class Plugin(Plugin):
      extends_models = ['notes.Note']
  

  Now yuo write:

  from lino.modlib.notes import Plugin
  class Plugin(Plugin):
      extends_models = ['Note']
  

• And then the dd.is_abstract_model() has a new API. In the Meta class of a model which wants to be overrideable, you must replace

  abstract = dd.is_abstract_model('notes.Note')
  

  by::

  abstract = dd.is_abstract_model(__name__, ‘Note’)

The main reason for this change was a new feature: Lino now supports multi-level plugin inheritance. We could now define a Person class in lino_welfare.chatelet.lib.contacts which inherits from lino_welfare.modlib.contacts which in turn inherits from lino.modlib.contacts.