further minimizing django councilmatic

[fgregg]

it’s been productive to move the views and templates and such out of django councilmatic.

another good step would be to move all possible methods from the django councilmatic models to the chi-councilmatic proxy models

[fgregg]

this is not actually a good approach since we have some things set up in django_councilmatic to follow relations and get the right things back.

i think i'd like to experiment with a different approach where we extend opencivicdata models to include a slug, and then we basically replicate the model definitions from opencivicdata into chi-councilmatic, but use managed=False.

this will require us to keep these model definitions in sync, but the opencivicdata models are very slow moving.

[fgregg]

i wonder if an approach like this could work.

1. do not have opencividata be an installed app
2. in models.py for chicago, do something like

import opencividata.core

class Person(opencivicdata.core.models.Person):
    class Meta:
        managed = False
        db_table = "opencivicdata_person"

to cut down on the amount of duplication.

[fgregg]

i think that will work if we monkeypatch the opencivicdata.core.models as abstract.

[fgregg]

this is working beautifully:

from contextlib import contextmanager

@contextmanager
def abstract(base_model):

    previous_abstract_state = base_model._meta.abstract
    base_model._meta.abstract = True
    try:
        yield base_model
    finally:
        base_model._meta.abstract = previous_abstract_state

with abstract(opencivicdata.core.models.Person) as AbstractPerson:
    class TestPerson(AbstractPerson):
        class Meta:
            managed = False
            db_table = "opencivicdata_person"

        hello = 'there'

>>> from chicago.models import TestPerson
>>> TestPerson.objects.first()
<TestPerson: Martin, Matthew J.>
>>> TestPerson.objects.first().id
'ocd-person/02abf3c1-c846-4249-b086-54f1707f5a16'
>>> TestPerson.objects.first().family_name
'Martin'
>>> TestPerson.objects.first().hello
'there'