How to get the class name of a ContentType in django

[Aamu Padi]

How do I get the class name in string of a ContentType? I tried it this way, but it didn't worked out:

class StreamItem(models.Model):
    user = models.ForeignKey(User)
    content_type = models.ForeignKey(ContentType)
    object_id = models.PositiveIntegerField()
    pub_date = models.DateTimeField(default=datetime.now)

    content_object = generic.GenericForeignKey('content_type', 'object_id')
    content_class = content_type.__name__

    def __unicode__(self):
        return self.content_class

Any help will be much appreciated! Thank you.

[Simon Charette]

Do you want to retrieve the class name of the model class associated with a content type?

[Aamu Padi]

Yes. Could you kindly please show me how?

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[Timothy W. Cook]

You can use type() on your instance(s) to find out their model class.

If you have an instance of the model:

stream = StreamItem.objects.create(user,ct,oid,pdate)

Then type(stream) should return <class 'StreamItem'>

Is that what you wanted?

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[Aamu Padi]

Yes!!! Can I use it as a string in template?

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[Timothy W. Cook]

On Sat, Nov 30, 2013 at 3:37 PM, Aamu Padi <aamu...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Yes!!! Can I use it as a string in template?
>

I haven't tested it but it seems you should be able to assign it to a
context variable or kwargs in a view and use it in a template.

Something like:

context['classname'] = type(myinstance)
or
kwargs['classname'] = type(myinstance)

HTH,
Tim

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[Aamu Padi]

Ok, I will try it! Thank you so very much!!!

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[Timothy W. Cook]

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