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philgo20
philgo20

Reputation: 6517

How can I get access to a Django Model field verbose name dynamically?

I'd like to have access to one my model field verbose_name.

I can get it by the field indice like this 

model._meta._fields()[2].verbose_name

but I need to get it dynamically. Ideally it would be something like this 

model._meta._fields()['location_x'].verbose_name

I've looked at a few things but I just can't find it.

Upvotes: 48

Views: 41499

Answers (8)

freelance
freelance

Reputation: 1

# select fields for bulk_update : exclude primary key and relational
fieldsfields_to_update = []
for field_to_update in Model._meta.get_fields():
        if not field_to_update.many_to_many and not field_to_update.many_to_one and not field_to_update.one_to_many and not field_to_update.one_to_one and not field_to_update.primary_key and not field_to_update.is_relation :
            fields_to_update = fields_to_update + [field_to_update.name]
Model.objects.bulk_update(models_to_update , fields_to_update)

Upvotes: 0

Alvaro Rodriguez Scelza
Alvaro Rodriguez Scelza

Reputation: 4174

You can also use:

Model.location_x.field.verbose_name

Model being the class name. I tested this on my Animal model:

Animal.sale_price.field.verbose_name

Animal.sale_price returns a DeferredAttribute, which has several meta data, like the verbose_name

Note: I'm using Django 3.1.5

Upvotes: 7

arianvc
arianvc

Reputation: 101

If you want to iterate on all the fields you need to get the field:

for f in BotUser._meta.get_fields():
    if hasattr(f, 'verbose_name'):
        print(f.verbose_name)

Upvotes: 2

Nithish
Nithish

Reputation: 1640

The selected answer gives a proxy object which might look as below.

<django.utils.functional.__proxy__ object at 0x{SomeMemoryLocation}>

If anyone is seeing the same, you can find the string for the verbose name in the title() member function of the proxy object.

model._meta.get_field_by_name(header)[0].verbose_name.title()

A better way to write this would be:

model._meta.get_field(header).verbose_name.title()

where header will be the name of the field you are interested in. i.e., 'location-x' in OPs context.

NOTE: Developers of Django also feel that using get_field is better and thus have depreciated get_field_by_name in Django 1.10. Thus I would suggest using get_field no matter what version of Django you use.

Upvotes: 14

renno
renno

Reputation: 2827

For Django 1.11 and 2.0:

MyModel._meta.get_field('my_field_name').verbose_name

More info in the Django doc

Upvotes: 25

Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams
Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams

Reputation: 799580

For Django < 1.10:

model._meta.get_field_by_name('location_x')[0].verbose_name

Upvotes: 48

Dmitry Shevchenko
Dmitry Shevchenko

Reputation: 32434

model._meta.get_field_by_name('location_x')[0].verbose_name

Upvotes: 7

Bertrand Bordage
Bertrand Bordage

Reputation: 1015

model._meta.get_field('location_x').verbose_name

Upvotes: 32

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