Casting foreign keys of foreign keys

[pierregm]

I have the following (simplified) django and django-polymorphic models:

class GenericOffer(PolymorphicModel):
	pass
class OfferA(GenericOffer):
	special = models.IntegerField()
class OfferB(GenericOffer):
	pass

class GenericProduct(PolymorphicModel):
	offer = models.ForeignKey(to=GenericOffer)
class ProductA(GenericProduct):
	pass
class ProductB(GenericProduct):
	pass

class Gizmo(models.Model):
	product = models.ForeignKey(to=GenericProduct)

from which I can create the following instances:

offer_a = OfferA()
product_a = ProductA(offer=offer_a)
gizmo_a = Gizmo(product=product_a)

Now, I have:

assert product_a.offer == offer_a
assert gizmo_a.product == product_a

But:

assert gizmo_a.product_a.offer != offer_a
assert gizmo_a.product_a.offer.get_real_instance() == offer_a

That is, the foreign key linked to a foreign key of my Gizmo is not automatically cast to its proper type.

• Is it the expected behavior?

• Should I use a GenericRelation instead of a ForeignKey in my Gizmo to make sure I can easily access the special field of my offer on gizmo_a ?