from django.db import models from django.utils.translation import ugettext_lazy as _ from django.utils.encoding import smart_unicode class ContentTypeManager(models.Manager): # Cache to avoid re-looking up ContentType objects all over the place. # This cache is shared by all the get_for_* methods. _cache = {} def get_by_natural_key(self, app_label, model): try: ct = self.__class__._cache[self.db][(app_label, model)] except KeyError: ct = self.get(app_label=app_label, model=model) return ct def get_for_model(self, model): """ Returns the ContentType object for a given model, creating the ContentType if necessary. Lookups are cached so that subsequent lookups for the same model don't hit the database. """ opts = model._meta while opts.proxy: model = opts.proxy_for_model opts = model._meta key = (opts.app_label, opts.object_name.lower()) try: ct = self.__class__._cache[self.db][key] except KeyError: # Load or create the ContentType entry. The smart_unicode() is # needed around opts.verbose_name_raw because name_raw might be a # django.utils.functional.__proxy__ object. ct, created = self.get_or_create( app_label = opts.app_label, model = opts.object_name.lower(), defaults = {'name': smart_unicode(opts.verbose_name_raw)}, ) self._add_to_cache(self.db, ct) return ct def get_for_id(self, id): """ Lookup a ContentType by ID. Uses the same shared cache as get_for_model (though ContentTypes are obviously not created on-the-fly by get_by_id). """ try: ct = self.__class__._cache[self.db][id] except KeyError: # This could raise a DoesNotExist; that's correct behavior and will # make sure that only correct ctypes get stored in the cache dict. ct = self.get(pk=id) self._add_to_cache(self.db, ct) return ct def clear_cache(self): """ Clear out the content-type cache. This needs to happen during database flushes to prevent caching of "stale" content type IDs (see django.contrib.contenttypes.management.update_contenttypes for where this gets called). """ self.__class__._cache.clear() def _add_to_cache(self, using, ct): """Insert a ContentType into the cache.""" model = ct.model_class() key = (model._meta.app_label, model._meta.object_name.lower()) self.__class__._cache.setdefault(using, {})[key] = ct self.__class__._cache.setdefault(using, {})[ct.id] = ct class ContentType(models.Model): name = models.CharField(max_length=100) app_label = models.CharField(max_length=100) model = models.CharField(_('python model class name'), max_length=100) objects = ContentTypeManager() class Meta: verbose_name = _('content type') verbose_name_plural = _('content types') db_table = 'django_content_type' ordering = ('name',) unique_together = (('app_label', 'model'),) def __unicode__(self): return self.name def model_class(self): "Returns the Python model class for this type of content." from django.db import models return models.get_model(self.app_label, self.model) def get_object_for_this_type(self, **kwargs): """ Returns an object of this type for the keyword arguments given. Basically, this is a proxy around this object_type's get_object() model method. The ObjectNotExist exception, if thrown, will not be caught, so code that calls this method should catch it. """ return self.model_class()._default_manager.using(self._state.db).get(**kwargs) def natural_key(self): return (self.app_label, self.model)