In Django
I know that there is one and only one model with name foo
, but I don't know the app that this model is registered with! How can I get the model with only model_name
?
CodePudding user response:
As the answers to Django: Get model from string? show, you need either the app_name
string or an AppConfig
object to get a model from model_name
.
However, you can use apps.get_app_configs()
to iterate over AppConfig
instances, so something like this is possible:
from django.apps import apps
for app_conf in apps.get_app_configs():
try:
foo_model = app_conf.get_model('foo')
break # stop as soon as it is found
except LookupError:
# no such model in this application
pass
Note that this iterable will include base django apps that are in INSTALLED_APPS
like admin
, auth
, contenttypes
, sessions
, messages
and staticfiles
.