Define Django Base Model Class

[Guilherme Leal]

In one of my django projects, I have a base model (that inherits from django.db.models.Model), and is the base model class that all my models uses.

I would like to "override" the base model class from django, so everytime a developer would import the base model class with "from django.db.models import Model", it would insted import my project's custom base model.

The result would be something like this:

from django.db import models

class MyModel(models.Model):
    pass


>>> type(MyModel)
<class 'MyProject.MyApp.CustomModel'>

Any help would be apreciated!

[Avraham Serour]

You could monkeypatch django to accomplish this, but I would advise against it.

Instead of having implicit or hidden behaviour you should instruct your developers to use from myproject import models instead of from django.db import models

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[Guilherme Leal]

Got it.

The custom model doesn't have any significantly different behaviour, just some helper properties that return, for instance, a basic GrapQL Node from that very model (the project uses graphene).

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[Vijay Khemlani]

That doesn't change the advise

I would find it weird to import a class only to have something else loaded

https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0020/

"Explicit is better than implicit."

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