From 800b6cfbbeca0bd1ae47bcac1f3503a8063161ae Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Adrian Holovaty <adrian@holovaty.com>
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 2009 16:58:29 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Changed GeoDjango GeometryField to lazily load units,
 units_name and _spheroid

git-svn-id: http://code.djangoproject.com/svn/django/trunk@10486 bcc190cf-cafb-0310-a4f2-bffc1f526a37
---
 .../contrib/gis/db/models/fields/__init__.py  | 25 ++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 24 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/django/contrib/gis/db/models/fields/__init__.py b/django/contrib/gis/db/models/fields/__init__.py
index 278e9896ee..d8850063ab 100644
--- a/django/contrib/gis/db/models/fields/__init__.py
+++ b/django/contrib/gis/db/models/fields/__init__.py
@@ -46,7 +46,9 @@ class GeometryField(SpatialBackend.Field):
         # Setting the SRID and getting the units.  Unit information must be
         # easily available in the field instance for distance queries.
         self.srid = srid
-        self.units, self.units_name, self._spheroid = get_srid_info(srid)
+
+        # units_cache, units_name_cache and _spheroid_cache are lazily loaded.
+        self._units_cache = self._units_name_cache = self._spheroid_cache = None
 
         # Setting the dimension of the geometry field.
         self.dim = dim
@@ -57,6 +59,27 @@ class GeometryField(SpatialBackend.Field):
 
         super(GeometryField, self).__init__(**kwargs) # Calling the parent initializtion function
 
+    def _populate_srid_info(self):
+        self._units_cache, self._units_name_cache, self._spheroid_cache = get_srid_info(self.srid)
+
+    def _get_units(self):
+        if self._units_cache is None:
+            self._populate_srid_info()
+        return self._units_cache
+    units = property(_get_units)
+
+    def _get_units_name(self):
+        if self._units_name_cache is None:
+            self._populate_srid_info()
+        return self._units_name_cache
+    units_name = property(_get_units_name)
+
+    def _get_spheroid(self):
+        if self._spheroid_cache is None:
+            self._populate_srid_info()
+        return self._spheroid_cache
+    _spheroid = property(_get_spheroid)
+
     # The following properties are for formerly private variables that are now
     # public for GeometryField.  Because of their use by third-party applications,
     # a deprecation warning is issued to notify them to use new attribute name.