I have an abstract model in a Django app:
class HistoryTrackedModel(models.Model):
def save(self, *args, **kwargs):
super(self.model, self).save(*args, **kwargs) # Call the real save method
# Do some miscellaneous work here (after saving)
class Meta:
abstract = True
A child model uses the abstract model as its base:
class Project(HistoryTrackedModel):
name = models.TextField(unique=True, blank=False, db_index=True)
... other fields ...
def __unicode__(self):
return self.name
class Meta:
ordering = ('name',)
When I instantiate an instance of Project (the child model), and call the save() method, I get the following error:
'Project' object has no attribute 'model'
It's failing on the super(self.model, self).save() call in the abstract class's save method. I attempted to change that method to the following, but it (fairly obviously, now that I look at it) gets caught in a recursive loop:
class HistoryTrackedModel(models.Model):
def save(self, *args, **kwargs):
my_model = type(self)
super(my_model, self).save(*args, **kwargs) # Call the real save method
What am I doing wrong here? Shouldn't all child classes that inherit from a base class (which itself inherits from models.Model) include the model attribute?
super(HistoryTrackedModel, self).save(*args, **kwargs)
should work.
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