No, import of related models shouldn't affect cascade deletion. Please open a bug report with steps to reproduce if that's actually the case. Possibly it could be a bug that's fixed by the app loading refactor in 1.7.
On Thursday, July 30, 2015 at 9:38:09 AM UTC-4, Markus Amalthea Magnuson wrote: > > Hey, > > I stumbled upon a piece of code and a comment that says this: > > Deleting a model object that has related objects will only cascade delete > those objects if their models have been imported. > > Is this true? I have not found it in the documentation and would like to > add a reference to the code comment so others won't be as confused as I am. > > Here's an illustration (from memory, disregard if code is not valid > python): > > mymodel.py: > > from django.db import models > > class MyModel(models.Model): > foo = models.CharField() > bar = models.CharField() > > > my_other_model.py: > > from django.db import models > from mymodel import MyModel > > class MyOtherModel(models.Model): > baz = models.CharField() > bar = models.ForeignKey(MyModel) > > > some_source_file.py: > > from mymodel import MyModel > > # Without this line, deleting MyModel objects will not delete its related > # MyOtherModel objects (?): > from my_other_model import MyOtherModel > > obj = MyModel.objects.get(pk=123) > obj.delete() > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/django-users/b41ea21c-aafb-4268-8549-93370000b0cf%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
