Adding attributes into Django Model's Meta class

Question

I\'m writing a mixin which will allow my Models to be easily translated into a deep dict of values (kind of like .values(), but traversing relationships). The cleanest place to

Answer 1

I don't know about elegant, but one pragmatic way is:

import django.db.models.options as options

options.DEFAULT_NAMES = options.DEFAULT_NAMES + ('schema',)

Obviously, this would break if Django ever added a 'schema' attribute of its own. But hey, it's a thought...you could always pick an attribute name which is less likely to clash.

Answer 2

Not a direct answer, but I did not like the idea of adding it in every model where I need it to the options, so I did:

class MyModel(models.Model):
    
    class Meta:
        ordering = ["myfield"]

    class MyPrefixMeta:
        my_value = "Abc"

You could even put this to a abstract model and validate the set class properties in __init__ function or do things like adding a _myprefix_meta property to the model. So you had your own meta class.