Re: How to get the class name of a ContentType in django

On Sat, Nov 30, 2013 at 3:37 PM, Aamu Padi <aamupadi@gmail.com> wrote:
> Yes!!! Can I use it as a string in template?
>


I haven't tested it but it seems you should be able to assign it to a
context variable or kwargs in a view and use it in a template.

Something like:

context['classname'] = type(myinstance)
or
kwargs['classname'] = type(myinstance)

HTH,
Tim

>
> On Sat, Nov 30, 2013 at 2:45 PM, Timothy W. Cook <tim@mlhim.org> wrote:
>>
>> You can use type() on your instance(s) to find out their model class.
>>
>> If you have an instance of the model:
>>
>> stream = StreamItem.objects.create(user,ct,oid,pdate)
>>
>> Then type(stream) should return <class 'StreamItem'>
>>
>> Is that what you wanted?
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Sat, Nov 30, 2013 at 1:14 AM, Simon Charette <charette.s@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> > Do you want to retrieve the class name of the model class associated
>> > with a
>> > content type?
>> >
>> > Le jeudi 28 novembre 2013 12:04:34 UTC-5, Aamu Padi a écrit :
>> >>
>> >> How do I get the class name in string of a ContentType? I tried it this
>> >> way, but it didn't worked out:
>> >>
>> >> class StreamItem(models.Model):
>> >> user = models.ForeignKey(User)
>> >> content_type = models.ForeignKey(ContentType)
>> >> object_id = models.PositiveIntegerField()
>> >> pub_date = models.DateTimeField(default=datetime.now)
>> >>
>> >> content_object = generic.GenericForeignKey('content_type',
>> >> 'object_id')
>> >> content_class = content_type.__name__
>> >>
>> >> def __unicode__(self):
>> >> return self.content_class
>> >>
>> >> Any help will be much appreciated! Thank you.
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