Why SlugField overrides get_internal_type()?

[Val Neekman]

None of the other subclasses of CharField override get_internal_type() but the SlugField and I am wondering why?

Class SlugField(CharField):

    def get_internal_type(self):

        return "SlugField"

Thx,

Val

[Carl Meyer]

Hi Val,

"Internal type" abstracts a field class from the database column type
used to represent it in various database backends. "SlugField" is a
distinct internal_type from "CharField" because we use different
database column types to represent SlugField and CharField in some
databases.

See the implementation of `Field.db_type()` and the `data_types` class
attribute on the various DatabaseCreation classes in the db backends.

Carl

[Val Neekman]

Oh, I see.

Thanks Carl.

Val

Carl

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