Apply doc addition that somehow was left out of r11833. Refs #7977.

git-svn-id: http://code.djangoproject.com/svn/django/trunk@11841 bcc190cf-cafb-0310-a4f2-bffc1f526a37
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Karen Tracey 2009-12-13 15:16:48 +00:00
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@ -39,6 +39,8 @@ are traditionally called *north*, *east*, *south* and *west*. Our class looks
something like this::
class Hand(object):
"""A hand of cards (bridge style)"""
def __init__(self, north, east, south, west):
# Input parameters are lists of cards ('Ah', '9s', etc)
self.north = north
@ -163,6 +165,8 @@ behave like any existing field, so we'll subclass directly from
from django.db import models
class HandField(models.Field):
"""A hand of cards (bridge style)"""
def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
kwargs['max_length'] = 104
super(HandField, self).__init__(*args, **kwargs)
@ -244,6 +248,8 @@ simple: make sure your field subclass uses a special metaclass:
For example::
class HandField(models.Field):
"""A hand of cards (bridge style)"""
__metaclass__ = models.SubfieldBase
def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
@ -252,6 +258,21 @@ For example::
This ensures that the :meth:`to_python` method, documented below, will always be
called when the attribute is initialized.
Documenting your Custom Field
-----------------------------
As always, you should document your field type, so users will know what it is.
The best way to do this is to simply provide a docstring for it. This will
automatically be picked up by ``django.contrib.admindocs``, if you have it
installed, and the first line of it will show up as the field type in the
documentation for any model that uses your field. In the above examples, it
will show up as 'A hand of cards (bridge style)'. Note that if you provide a
more verbose docstring, only the first line will show up in
``django.contrib.admindocs``. The full docstring will, of course, still be
available through ``pydoc`` or the interactive interpreter's ``help()``
function.
Useful methods
--------------