Django Model inheritance and access children based on category - django

Question

I want to get the parent class values with each child values? How can I identify child objects to fetch?
I have the Django model structure like this.
class Category(models.Model):
name = models.CharField(max_length=80)
class Place(models.Model):
name = models.CharField(max_length=50)
address = models.CharField(max_length=80)
category = models.ForeignKey('Category')
class PizzaRestaurant(Place):
serves_hot_dogs = models.BooleanField(default=False)
serves_pizza = models.BooleanField(default=False)
class PastaRestaurant(Place):
extra = models.CharField(max_length=80)
When we do operation we may save the object like below. And it saved into the db as i expected. two entry in the Place table and each entry in each child object table.
a = Category()
a.name = "pasta"
b = Category()
b.name = "pizza"
a.save()
b.save()
x = PastaRestaurant()
x.address = "Pasta Address"
x.name = "Pastamonia"
x.extra = "some extra"
x.category = a
y = PizzaRestaurant()
y.address = "Pizza Address"
y.name = "Dominos"
y.serves_hot_dogs = 1
y.serves_pizza = 0
y.category = b
x.save()
y.save()
Now I need to access the like this
p = Place.objects.get(id=1)
How can I know, which objects/attributes belongs to the place objects?
So when I fetch the place with common attributes and should be able get the corresponding child objects values also.
Or any other model design work for my need?

Answer 1

If you want to access the child model's attributes you need to fetch it as that model, i e PizzaRestaurant or PastaRestaurant, otherwise you will only get a Place object.
If you need to get all Places regardless of subclass take a look at InheritanceManager from django-model-utils. Using this you can implement overloaded operations to perform subclass-specific actions.

Answer 2

django-polymorphic does this beautifully, improving the abilities to work with model inheritance like so:
from polymorphic.models import PolymorphicModel
class Place(PolymorphicModel):
...
class PizzaRestaurant(Place):
...
class PastaRestaurant(Place:
...
>>> some_place = Place.objects.create(name="Walmart")
>>> some_pizza_place = PizzaRestaurant.objects.create(name="Slice King", address="101 Main St., Bismarck, ND", category = Category.objects.first(),serves_pizza=True)
>>> some_pizza_place.instance_of(PizzaPlace)
True
>>> PizzaRestaurant.objects.all()
queryset<['Slice King',]>
>>> Place.objects.all()
queryset<['Walmart', 'Slice King',]>