Re: Current best practices for Custom products (i.e: inheritance or not )

[Marconius Cuthemustard]

I can't say for sure, but it seems to me that there is so much going on in the satchmo code that it is best not to use inheritance. It is probably much safer to make new "extension" models that are related to the Product model and then play with the admin options. I hope this changes in the future, 'coz inheritance is a heck of a lot nicer and also easier to extend. The same goes for Satchmo views ... mmmmm ... class-based views.

On Monday, 9 July 2012 10:49:30 UTC-4, Paul Walsh wrote:

There seems to be conflicting views on inheriting the Product model in Satchmo.

This is confounded by the following text found on the page dedicated to custom product models on the Satchmo site:

"Using inheritance is currently not recommended, because it has some issues when it is used without care. Some methods ofproduct.models.Product currently do not expect to find subtypes which inherit attributes and methods fromproduct.models.Product."

I'd like to know what the current word is, and, what methods are problematic exactly, if any.

Thanks.