Django: Why do some model fields clash with each other?

Question

I want to create an object that contains 2 links to Users. For example:

class GameClaim(models.Model):
    target = models.ForeignKey(User)
    claimer = mod         


        

Answer 1

The OP isn't using a abstract base class... but if you are, you will find that hard coding the related_name in the FK (e.g. ..., related_name="myname") will result in a number of these conflict errors - one for each inherited class from the base class. The link provided below contains the workaround, which is simple, but definitely not obvious.

From the django docs...

If you are using the related_name attribute on a ForeignKey or ManyToManyField, you must always specify a unique reverse name for the field. This would normally cause a problem in abstract base classes, since the fields on this class are included into each of the child classes, with exactly the same values for the attributes (including related_name) each time.

More info here.