Should i create one model for multiple apps in a clothing project?-CodePudding

It's my first time creating a project with Django. and it's an e-commerce store for clothing. my confusion now is, most of the items are similar, like women's wears, men's wears, children's wears.Creating different models in different apps means i have to repeat a lot of code because most of the fields will be same and some operations would be more complicated to achieve like global search, etc.

So should i create a single database for all of the items and filter out what i need in different sections like menswear page, women's wear page, etc ?

#For men's model

from django.db import models
from django.urls import reverse

# Create your models here.

CLOTH_CATEGORY_OPTIONS = (
    ("top", "Top"),
    ("bottom", "Bottom"),
    ("complete", "Complete"),
)
CLOTH_GENDER_OPTIONS = (
    ("male", "Male"),
    ("female", "Female"),
    ("unisex", "Unisex"),
)


class Wear(models.Model):
    cloth_name = models.CharField(max_length=50, unique=True)
    cloth_image = models.CharField(max_length=300)
    cloth_category = models.CharField(
        max_length=8, choices=CLOTH_CATEGORY_OPTIONS, default='top')
    cloth_gender = models.CharField(
        max_length=8, choices=CLOTH_GENDER_OPTIONS, default='male')
    cloth_price = models.FloatField()
    cloth_description = models.TextField()
    slug = models.SlugField(default='', editable=False,
                            max_length=200, null=False)

#For women's model

from django.urls import reverse

# Create your models here.

CLOTH_CATEGORY_OPTIONS = (
    ("top", "Top"),
    ("bottom", "Bottom"),
    ("complete", "Complete"),
)
CLOTH_GENDER_OPTIONS = (
    ("male", "Male"),
    ("female", "Female"),
    ("unisex", "Unisex"),
)


class WomensWear(models.Model):
    cloth_name = models.CharField(max_length=50, unique=True)
    cloth_image = models.CharField(max_length=300)
    cloth_category = models.CharField(
        max_length=8, choices=CLOTH_CATEGORY_OPTIONS, default='top')
    cloth_gender = models.CharField(
        max_length=8, choices=CLOTH_GENDER_OPTIONS, default='male')
    cloth_price = models.FloatField()
    cloth_description = models.TextField()
    slug = models.SlugField(default='', editable=False,
                            max_length=200, null=False)

As you can see, this is repetitive, so i want to create a global database so i can import it in each app and filter out for men, women, children etc.

CodePudding user response：

You didn't need to repeat all this code for each gender.. Make one model with a field Gender and specify all the genders. You can filter the clothes in the views with:

Wear.objects.all().filter(Gender=**Male or Women**)

That will filter your products with the gender you give.

CodePudding user response：

Creating 2 models will work for you. A Cloth Model and a Gender Model One cloth can be of a male or female or both so will work with one to many

class Cloth(models.Model):
     gender = models.ForiegnKey(Gender)
     ....

You will be filtering using:

Cloth.objects.filter(gender__type="male")