Django model inheritance: create sub-instance of existing instance (downcast)?

Question

I\'m trying to integrate a 3rd party Django app that made the unfortunate decision to inherit from django.contrib.auth.models.User, which is a big no-no for plu

Answer 1

I found this answer by asking on django-user mailing list:

https://groups.google.com/d/msg/django-users/02t83cuEbeg/JnPkriW-omQJ

This isn't part of the public API but you could rely on how Django loads fixture internally.

parent = Restaurant.objects.get(name__iexact="Bob's Place").parent
bar = Bar(parent=parent, happy_hour=True)
bar.save_base(raw=True)

Keep in mind that this could break with any new version of Django.