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| author | Simon Meers <simon@simonmeers.com> | 2010-10-09 02:54:48 +0000 |
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| committer | Simon Meers <simon@simonmeers.com> | 2010-10-09 02:54:48 +0000 |
| commit | fa3335fa9f5af4b1ff3991b87ebac3449ceae6b2 (patch) | |
| tree | e3d38174d3c12b3bda980e956dadb5ad6ae3a057 /docs/ref | |
| parent | 5b155e2a879faedc8f72b3756e20a77b79a209f4 (diff) | |
Fixed #5537 -- document trailing '+' on related_name for supressing backward relation.
Thanks to dcramer for the report, and Russ for pointing out the workaround.
git-svn-id: http://code.djangoproject.com/svn/django/trunk@14049 bcc190cf-cafb-0310-a4f2-bffc1f526a37
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| -rw-r--r-- | docs/ref/models/fields.txt | 9 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/docs/ref/models/fields.txt b/docs/ref/models/fields.txt index 68208b3bfe..a390b4b843 100644 --- a/docs/ref/models/fields.txt +++ b/docs/ref/models/fields.txt @@ -925,6 +925,15 @@ define the details of how the relation works. <abstract-base-classes>`; and when you do so :ref:`some special syntax <abstract-related-name>` is available. + If you wish to supress the provision of a backwards relation, you may + simply provide a ``related_name`` which ends with a '+' character. + For example:: + + user = models.ForeignKey(User, related_name='+') + + will ensure that no backwards relation to this model is provided on the + ``User`` model. + .. attribute:: ForeignKey.to_field The field on the related object that the relation is to. By default, Django |