Tuesday, October 11, 2022

Here is something we didn’t yet need: update the “othermodel” pointed to by a ForeignKey. Something like this:

dd.update_field(Convention, "company", othermodel="jobs.JobProvider")

But that doesn’t work. I updated the docstring of dd.update_field().

The best solution (IMHO) was to split up the lino_xl.lib.contacts.ContactRelated mixin into an AbstractContactRelated, which does the same as ContactRelated except defining the company field.

A side effect of this change is that lino.utils.diag.Analyzer.show_database_structure() gives a series of false alarms: every model based on ContactRelated

>>> import lino
>>> lino.startup('lino_welfare.projects.mathieu.settings.demo')
>>> from lino.api.doctest import *

>>> art60.Convention._meta.get_field("company")
<django.db.models.fields.related.ForeignKey: company>

>>> art60.Convention.objects.first().company.__class__
<class 'lino_welfare.modlib.jobs.models.JobProvider'>

>>> art61.Contract.objects.first().company.__class__
<class 'lino_welfare.modlib.jobs.models.Employer'>