Access The Superclass Of A Django Model

Given a Django Model class Sub(models.Model): name = models.CharField(max_length=100) size_in_inches = models.IntegerField(default=6) class TunaSub(Sub): fish_ingredie

Solution 1:

Since you extend Sub, name is also a field of both TunaSub and MeatballSub. So you can simply use

def__str__(self):
    returnself.name

As a side note, since you are extending a concrete model, you are in fact creating three separate tables in the database (named sub, tuna_sub, and meatball_sub) which are connected via one-to-one relations. If you only want to reuse the field definitions in sub and not actually create a table for it, use an abstract base model class.