Feast Model - DDMAL/CantusDB GitHub Wiki

Feast (code) is a model in the main_app app. It inherits from BaseModel.

Each feast object represents a liturgical celebration that occurs during the church year, or a service commemorating a particular event. Each Chant in the database is associated with a single feast.

Views

Feast has a Detail view and a List view.

Fields

• name: a string. Examples include "Pro ordinatione Episcopi", "Mederici", "Comm. Apostolorum TQ"
• description: a string, providing more information and occasionally explaining short forms in the name field. Examples include "Chants for the ordination of a bishop", "Medericus (Merry), Abbot", "Common of Apostles, Lent"
• feast_code: a string, usually consisting of eight numeric digits. We're waiting for researchers at OldCantus to decide on a new standard for labelling Feasts, so this may be updated soon.
• notes: a string. Rarely used; when it is, it often references a book with further information about the feast. Examples include "Holweck, p. 1033", "Holweck, p. 405".
• month: an integer, 1 <= month <= 12, representing the month of the year in which the feast occurs. It is not specified for many feasts in the database.
• day: an integer, 1 <= day <= 31, representing the calendar day on which the feast occurs. It is not specified for many feasts in the database.
• prefix: a string containing the first two characters of the feast_code, used for separating feasts into different categories (i.e., temporale and sanctorale). The prefix field needs to be populated using the add_prefix management command.
• inherited from BaseModel:
  • date_created
  • date_updated
  • created_by
  • last_updated_by

Methods

• inherited from BaseModel:
  • save()
  • display_name (property)
  • get_absolute_url()
  • get_verbose_name()
  • get_verbose_name_plural()
  • get_fields_and_properties()