Edit inline and models without fields in the admin

[anonymous]

If a model is a ForeignFey for another model with edit_inline=models.STACKED or TABULAR but have no fields itself the admin fails to display the the page at all. Failing with a error page.

class Cart(models.Model):

    class Admin:
        pass

class CartItem(models.Model):

    cart =  models.ForeignKey(Cart, edit_inline=models.STACKED)
    quantity = models.PositiveIntegerField(core=True)

[tyson@…]

See also #1972

[James Bennett]

I guess with both of these tickets (this one and the one referenced in the above comment) I wonder what the perceived utility is of relating to an object which has no columns in the database other than a primary key; what actual problem does such a setup solve?

[James Bennett]

Also, it looks like the common problem is that when a model has no fields, syncdb doesn't bother creating a table for it (using the model definitions above, no tables were created when running syncdb on the app). Which makes logical sense, but we could probably document that better.

[James Bennett]

Duplicate of #1972

[Adrian Holovaty]

Milestone Version 0.92 deleted