Django: Get list of model fields?

Question

Django versions 1.8 and later:

You should use get_fields():

[f.name for f in MyModel._meta.get_fields()]

The get_all_field_names() method is deprecated starting from Django 1.8 and will be removed in 1.10.

The documentation page linked above provides a fully backwards-compatible implementation of get_all_field_names(), but for most purposes the previous example should work just fine.

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Django versions before 1.8:

model._meta.get_all_field_names()

That should do the trick.

That requires an actual model instance. If all you have is a subclass of django.db.models.Model, then you should call myproject.myapp.models.MyModel._meta.get_all_field_names()

As most of answers are outdated I'll try to update you on Django 2.2 Here posts- your app (posts, blog, shop, etc.)

1) From model link: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/stable/ref/models/meta/

from posts.model import BlogPost

all_fields = BlogPost._meta.fields
#or
all_fields = BlogPost._meta.get_fields()

Note that:

all_fields=BlogPost._meta.get_fields()

Will also get some relationships, which, for ex: you can not display in a view.
As in my case:

Organisation._meta.fields
(<django.db.models.fields.AutoField: id>, <django.db.models.fields.DateField: created>...

and

Organisation._meta.get_fields()
(<ManyToOneRel: crm.activity>, <django.db.models.fields.AutoField: id>, <django.db.models.fields.DateField: created>...

2) From instance

from posts.model import BlogPost

bp = BlogPost()
all_fields = bp._meta.fields

3) From parent model

Let's suppose that we have Post as the parent model and you want to see all the fields in a list, and have the parent fields to be read-only in Edit mode.

from django.contrib import admin
from posts.model import BlogPost 

@admin.register(BlogPost)
class BlogPost(admin.ModelAdmin):
    all_fields = [f.name for f in Organisation._meta.fields]
    parent_fields = BlogPost.get_deferred_fields(BlogPost)

    list_display = all_fields
    read_only = parent_fields

The get_all_related_fields() method mentioned herein has been deprecated in 1.8. From now on it's get_fields().

>> from django.contrib.auth.models import User
>> User._meta.get_fields()

I find adding this to django models quite helpful:

def __iter__(self):
    for field_name in self._meta.get_all_field_names():
        value = getattr(self, field_name, None)
        yield (field_name, value)

This lets you do:

for field, val in object:
    print field, val

This does the trick. I only test it in Django 1.7.

your_fields = YourModel._meta.local_fields
your_field_names = [f.name for f in your_fields]

Model._meta.local_fields does not contain many-to-many fields. You should get them using Model._meta.local_many_to_many.

It is not clear whether you have an instance of the class or the class itself and trying to retrieve the fields, but either way, consider the following code

Using an instance

instance = User.objects.get(username="foo")
instance.__dict__ # returns a dictionary with all fields and their values
instance.__dict__.keys() # returns a dictionary with all fields
list(instance.__dict__.keys()) # returns list with all fields

Using a class

User._meta.__dict__.get("fields") # returns the fields

# to get the field names consider looping over the fields and calling __str__()
for field in User._meta.__dict__.get("fields"):
    field.__str__() # e.g. 'auth.User.id'