django model field check instance

Question

I have a models like

class MyModel(models.Model):
    name = models.CharField()
    updated_on = models.DateTimeField()

Now I am querying this like

m = MyModel.objets.get(id=2)

Here I want to check if the field is of certain type I want to do some stuff like

from django.db.models import DateTimeField

if isinstance(m.updated_on, DateTimeField):
    // do something

But here I am getting false. Is there any workaround by which I can achieve this ??

Answer 1

To get the type of field: Model._meta.get_field("fieldname")

You can use this:

from django.db.models import DateTimeField if isinstance(MyModel._meta.get_field('updated_on'),DateTimeField): ...