On 1 oct, 10:29, Shawn Milochik <sh...@milochik.com> wrote:
> For what it's worth, I use the get_or_create with the 'default' keyword to do
> this:
>
> for record in reader:
>
> new_values = {
> 'product_code': slugify(record['Product Code']),
> 'msrp': record['Suggested Retail'],
> #etc...
> }
>
> product, was_created = Product.objects.get_or_create(source_id =
> record['Source ID'], defaults = new_values)
>
> if not was_created:
> product.product_code = slugify(record['Product Code'])
> product.msrp = record['Suggested Retail']
> #etc...
Err... What about:
if not was_created:
for attrname, value in new_values.items():
setattr(product, attrname, value)
product.save()
> I don't like the DRY violation, but a model instance doesn't have an update()
> method like a queryset for me to dump the kwargs into -- unless I'm missing
> something.
For "direct" model fields you could use the infamous
obj.__dict.__.update() hack but it's dirty and brittle - and it still
won't work with foreign keys, m2ms etc.
Now nothing prevents you from providing this model.update method...
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