Django Design Patterns and Best Practices

Chapter 3. Models

In this chapter, we will discuss the following topics:

• The importance of models
• Class diagrams
• Model structural patterns
• Model behavioral patterns
• Migrations

M is bigger than V and C

In Django, models are classes that provide an object-oriented way of dealing with databases. Typically, each class refers to a database table and each attribute refers to a database column. You can make queries to these tables using an automatically generated API.

Models can be the base for many other components. Once you have a model, you can rapidly derive model admins, model forms, and all kinds of generic views. In each case, you would need to write a line of code or two, just so that it does not seem too magical.

Also, models are used in more places ...