Use one model with a field to indicate whether or not this is the archival
(backup?) version. This could be your original_id field, which might be
better represented as a null-able foreign key field on self. Update step:
delete any instances whose "original" is this field (the reverse
reference manager works for this)
save a copy of the current instance (with any changes you want, and a
null "original" field)
update the "original" field of the old copy to point to the new one.
This can be extended to more than one level of backup.
On Thu, Oct 3, 2013 at 8:45 AM, Tim Chase <django.us...@tim.thechases.com>wrote:
> I've been trying to reduce some code in a new project, and I have a
> number of objects where I have the main class, and an archival
> version of the same class, something like
>
> def Thing(Model):
> last_updated = DateTimeField(...)
> who_updated = ForeignKey(User)
> field1 = ...
> field2 = ...
> ...
>
> def ThingArchive(Model):
> # pseudo-type declaration
> original_id = Thing.id.__class__ # whether Int or Guid
>
> last_updated = DateTimeField(...)
> who_updated = ForeignKey(User)
> field1 = ...
> field2 = ...
> ...
>
> such that every time Thing is updated+saved, the previous copy's
> information gets archived in ThingArchive, storing the original
> Thing.id as original_id (the id might be an integer or a GUID
> depending on the table).
>
> For one class, this isn't a particularly big deal, but I've got a
> number of these class-pairs and the code duplication is starting to
> get out of hand. Is there a pattern I should be using to abstract
> this archiving logic?
>
> Thanks,
>
> -tkc
>
>
>
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