.. _ref-content_types: =================================== ContentTypes and GenericForeignKeys =================================== `Content Types`_ and GenericForeignKeys are for relationships where the model on one end is not defined by the model's schema. .. _Content Types: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/contrib/contenttypes/ If you're using GenericForeignKeys in django, you can use a GenericForeignKeyField in Tastypie. Usage ===== Here's an example model with a GenericForeignKey taken from the Django docs:: from django.db import models from django.contrib.contenttypes.models import ContentType from django.contrib.contenttypes import generic class TaggedItem(models.Model): tag = models.SlugField() content_type = models.ForeignKey(ContentType) object_id = models.PositiveIntegerField() content_object = generic.GenericForeignKey('content_type', 'object_id') def __unicode__(self): return self.tag A simple ModelResource for this model might look like this:: from tastypie.contrib.contenttypes.fields import GenericForeignKeyField from tastypie.resources import ModelResource from .models import Note, Quote, TaggedItem class QuoteResource(ModelResource): class Meta: resource_name = 'quotes' queryset = Quote.objects.all() class NoteResource(ModelResource): class Meta: resource_name = 'notes' queryset = Note.objects.all() class TaggedItemResource(ModelResource): content_object = GenericForeignKeyField({ Note: NoteResource, Quote: QuoteResource }, 'content_object') class Meta: resource_name = 'tagged_items' queryset = TaggedItem.objects.all() Like ToOneField, you must add your GenericForeignKey attribute to your ModelResource definition. It will not be added automatically like most other field or attribute types. When you define it, you must also define the other models and match them to their resources in a dictionary, and pass that as the first argument, the second argument is the name of the attribute on the model that holds the GenericForeignKey.