Exception when subclassing subclass of CMSPlugin

[samluescher]

When creating a plugin model that is based on an existing plugin model, for instance: class SpecialText(Text):

Caught an exception while rendering: plugin model needs to subclass CMSPlugin

[tehfink]

what happens if you try:

 class SpecialText(Text, CMSPlugin):

i had the same problem making a faq plugin. i had to copy a lot of stuff, but i was able to keep it somewhat manageable by using a lot of import statements:
http://bitbucket.org/tehfink/cmsplugin-faq/

[digi604]

did the trick from thefink work? Should this go into the docs?

[digi604]

ok this does not work as you get an other one2one relation to text.
what we could do: Make an AbstractText and a Text Class. So people could inherit from AbstractText.

[digi604]

inheritance from abstract models should now work. Inheritance of non abstract models... well that's a very hard problem. Reversion and performance are some of the issues.
So for now we leave it with abstract models.

[digi604]

closed by 0697465 abstract text plugin model. Allow abstract plugin models to be inherited

[samluescher]

Sorry I had to put this off for such a long time – I confirm that subclassing AbstractText works as expected.