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| -rw-r--r-- | docs/ref/contrib/contenttypes.txt | 17 |
1 files changed, 15 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/docs/ref/contrib/contenttypes.txt b/docs/ref/contrib/contenttypes.txt index 1181e4b44f..1e9e21a4b7 100644 --- a/docs/ref/contrib/contenttypes.txt +++ b/docs/ref/contrib/contenttypes.txt @@ -187,13 +187,13 @@ The ``ContentTypeManager`` probably won't ever need to call this method yourself; Django will call it automatically when it's needed. - .. method:: get_for_model(model) + .. method:: get_for_model(model[, for_concrete_model=True]) Takes either a model class or an instance of a model, and returns the :class:`~django.contrib.contenttypes.models.ContentType` instance representing that model. - .. method:: get_for_models(*models) + .. method:: get_for_models(*models[, for_concrete_models=True]) Takes a variadic number of model classes, and returns a dictionary mapping the model classes to the @@ -224,6 +224,19 @@ lookup:: .. _generic-relations: +.. versionadded:: 1.5 + +Prior to Django 1.5 :meth:`~ContentTypeManager.get_for_model()` and +:meth:`~ContentTypeManager.get_for_models()` always returned the +:class:`~django.contrib.contenttypes.models.ContentType` associated with the +concrete model of the specified one(s). That means there was no way to retreive +the :class:`~django.contrib.contenttypes.models.ContentType` of a proxy model +using those methods. As of Django 1.5 you can now pass a boolean flag – +respectively ``for_concrete_model`` and ``for_concrete_models`` – to specify +wether or not you want to retreive the +:class:`~django.contrib.contenttypes.models.ContentType` for the concrete or +direct model. + Generic relations ================= |