Django multi-table inheritance, how to know which is the child class of a model?

Question

I\'m having a problem with multi-table inheritance in django.

Let’s make an example with bank accounts.

class account(models.Model):
    name = models……         


        

Answer 1

my solution was based on this

class account(models.Model):
    name = models……

    def cast(self):
        """
        This method is quite handy, it converts "self" into its correct child class. For example:

        .. code-block:: python

           class Fruit(models.Model):
               name = models.CharField()

           class Apple(Fruit):
               pass

           fruit = Fruit.objects.get(name='Granny Smith')
           apple = fruit.cast()

        :return self: A casted child class of self
        """
        for name in dir(self):
            try:
                attr = getattr(self, name)
                if isinstance(attr, self.__class__) and type(attr) != type(self):                 
                    return attr
            except:
                pass

    @staticmethod
    def allPossibleAccountTypes():
        #this returns a list of all the subclasses of account (i.e. accounttypeA, accounttypeB etc)
        return [str(subClass).split('.')[-1][:-2] for subClass in account.__subclasses__()]

    def accountType(self):
        try:
            if type(self.cast()) == NoneType:
                #it is a child
                return self.__class__.__name__
            else:
                #it is a parent, i.e. an account
                return str(type(self.cast())).split('.')[-1][:-2]
        except:
            logger.exception()
    accountType.short_description = "Account type"

class accounttypeA(account):
    balance = models.float…..

    def addToBalance(self, value):
        self.balance += value

class accounttypeB(account):
    balance = models.int…. # NOTE this