Re: django difference between - one to one, many to one and many to many

On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 12:36 AM, Aamu Padi <aamupadi@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> So, this is my first time learning computer language. And I chose python and django. Now, I got many of the basic concepts of python and also django. I can create new page with the views and all other stuff. But I am still confused with the relations, i.e. one to one, many to one, and many to many. Will someone please please please explain it to me. How can I use it? I really need to know

many to one :

This relationship is used as foreign key. In this one table can be used as a parent for many children.

Eg :

class Manufacturer(models.Model):
    # ...
    pass

class Car(models.Model):
    manufacturer = models.ForeignKey('Manufacturer')
    # ...

class Bus(models.Model):
    manufacturer = models.ForeignKey('Manufacturer')
    # ...

Here there is one base table Manufacturer which acts as base for 2 other tables.

many to many :

When you want many rows of a table to be linked to many rows of another table, we use manytomany field.

class Vehicle(models.Model): 

   # ..

   manufacturer = models.ManyToManyField(Manufacturer)

For more : http://charlesleifer.com/blog/describing-relationships-djangos-manytomany-through/

Application : For making checkboxes

one to one :

This is similar to foreign key, except that one parent has only one child.

Conceptually, this is similar to a ForeignKey with unique=True, but the "reverse" side of the relation will directly return a single object.

class Car(models.Model):
    manufacturer = OneToOneField('Manufacturer')
    # ...

Hope this helped.

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