how to get django field type instead of database field type

Question

I have the following code for my url field:

model =  MyModel()
field = model._meta.get_field_by_name('my_url_field')[0]
my_type = field.get_internal_type()
print my_type

This prints:

CharField

How can I get the django value of URLField?

what do you mean by 'value' exactly? do you want a string that says "URLField" or the actual class? — Gonzalo
– Gonzalo, Commented Nov 19, 2013 at 23:58

Gonzalo · Accepted Answer · 2013-11-20 00:01:34Z

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It seems the only way to achieve what you want would be to do this:

>>> model = MyModel()
>>> field = model._meta.get_field_by_name('my_url_field')[0]
>>> print field.__class__.__name__
'URLField'

answered Nov 20, 2013 at 0:01

Gonzalo

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