abstract Models don't have cls.objects

[rrauenza]

Bug report

A Model with

class Meta:
    abstract = True

won't have an objects field in the type annotations:

"type[Self]" has no attribute "objects" [attr-defined]

This is kind of a duplicate, but the other bug was specific to AbstractUser.

How is that should be

It kind of makes sense, since it is an abstract model -- but sometimes you are writing an abstract model that needs to reference self.objects as you write abstract functions for the future inheritors.

This does not seem to work as a workaround:

class Meta:                                                                           
          abstract = False if typing.TYPE_CHECKING else True    

This also does not seem to work:

   if not typing.TYPE_CHECKING:                                                          
          class Meta:                                                                       
              abstract = True                  

This IS a viable workaround it seems:

class MyModel(Model):
    class Meta: 
         abstract = True

   if typing.TYPE_CHECKING:                                                          
        objects: Manager

Since there is a workaround, no fix is necessarily needed, but wanted to document this here.

I'd argue, though, that an abstract model ought to have objects: Manager type annotated?

System information

• OS:
• python version: 3.12
• django version: 3.2.25
• mypy version: 1.15.0
• django-stubs version: 5.1.3
• django-stubs-ext version: 5.1.3