Django get models by model name

Question

In Django I know that there is one and only one model with name foo, but I don't know the app that this model is registered with! How can I get the model with only model_name?

score 6 · Accepted Answer · answered Apr 08 '22 at 16:59

As the answers to Django: Get model from string? show, you need either the app_name string or an AppConfig object to get a model from model_name.

However, you can use apps.get_app_configs() to iterate over AppConfig instances, so something like this is possible:

from django.apps import apps

for app_conf in apps.get_app_configs():
    try:
        foo_model = app_conf.get_model('foo')
        break # stop as soon as it is found
    except LookupError:
        # no such model in this application
        pass

Note that this iterable will include base django apps that are in INSTALLED_APPS like admin, auth, contenttypes, sessions, messages and staticfiles.

score 2 · Answer 2 · answered Mar 30 '23 at 12:30

Get all models.

from django.apps import apps
apps.get_models()

Get model by app name and model_name.

from django.apps import apps
apps.get_model(app_label="your_app_label", model_name="your_model_name_in_lower_case")

model can be also get by simply.

from django.apps import apps
apps.get_model('app_label.model_name')

Also, To know the model_name

from your_app.models import your_model
your_model._meta.model_name

Django get models by model name

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