How to make custom field from django field

Question

I want to make my custom field extend from django foreign key.

class CustomField(models.ForeignKey):
   def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
      self.type=kwargs.pop('type', None)
      super(CustomField, self).__init__(*args, **kwargs)

I am using like

CustomField('User', type="test")

This works correctly but i want to hard code model name in my field like this

super(CustomField, self).__init__('User', *args, **kwargs)

so that i can use

CustomField(type="test")

but then i get this error

__init__() got multiple values for keyword argument 'to'

Answer 1

The problem is that your are sending the to parameter used by models.ForeginKey in self and in the 'User' parameter when you make call super(CustomField, self).__init__('User', *args, **kwargs) . You can try to do in this way:

class CustomField(models.ForeignKey):

    def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
        kwargs['to'] = 'User'
        self.type = kwargs.pop('type', None)
        super(CustomField, self).__init__(*args, **kwargs)