serializing ModelDefinition doesn't create model table? about django-mutant

[charettes]

I'm trying to serializing ModelDefinition using DRF

What exactly is DRF?

I can create model record in mutant_modeldefinition. But the table related was not created.

You must create your model definition through the Django ORM (e.g. ModelDefinition.objects.create). Directly Inserting a row in the mutant_modeldefinition won't create the related table.

[lijax]

hi @charettes. Thanks.

I'm using Django Rest Framework and trying to setup apis for ModelDefinition and FieldDefinition.

So that means all fields should be passed to ModelDefinition.objects.create() function to create related table. And no matter the object is saved or not, the table will be created? If so, I think I can let the normal DRF serializing process to create the item in mutant_modeldefinition table. And then create an ModelDefinition object without saving it.

[lijax]

Sorry. I misunderstood. create() will definitely insert an item.
But I found where the problem is. It's because I'm using as subclass of ModelDefinition, class NoteType(ModelDefinition). Is it possible to make NoteType work like ModelDefinition?

[charettes]

@lijax Ahh it must be related to the way Django deals with inheritance and signals. I suggest you take a look at the mutant.management.__init__ module to identify all signals receiver attached directly to ModelDefinition and make sure to connect them to your ModelDefinition subclass.

[lijax]

Thanks, @charettes. I finally used ModelDefinition directly and it works fine.