How to introspect django model fields?

Question

I am trying to obtain class information on a field inside a model, when I only know name of the field and name of the model (both plain strings). How is it possible?

Answer 1

If you would like to see ALL fields on a Django model object you can simply introspect it by calling ._meta.get_fields() on the class (or an instantiated model object) to get at list of all fields. This API is current with the latest version of Django.

Example:

from django.contrib.auth.models import User
User._meta.get_fields()

This will return a tuple of all model fields. Documentation can be found HERE.