Re: Primary keys vs. natural keys

Hallöchen!

Carl Meyer writes:

> [...]
>
> There is no built in feature for this, but it doesn't seem like a
> hard problem to solve with your own conventions. For instance,
> rather than hardcoding the name of the natural key field inside
> the natural_key method, make it a model class attribute,
> e.g. MyModel.natural_key_field.

Do you mean this:

class ExternalOperator(models.Model):

name = models.CharField(_("name"), max_length=30, unique=True)
natural_key_field = "name"

It works (at least, it doesn't abort) but I thought only fields were
allowed as attributes.

Tschö,
Torsten.

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