Re: Non-primary auto-incrementing field with Postgres

On Tuesday, June 20, 2017 at 10:40:05 PM UTC-7, Scot Hacker wrote: > > One strategy might be to: > > 1) Bring in the data under a different column name ('old_id' ?) > 2) In a single migration, drop the default ID column, rename old_id to > id, and give it primary_key=True > I can't change the

Testing a Django library

I am working on a Django library (which will be packaged) and want to set up testing for it. Looking at a number of existing Django libraries, here seem to be a number of ways to set up testing, and all of them are different. Are there any best practices? Is there a guide that specifies how it

Re: ModelAdmin missing a couple of key features, or am I doing this wrong?

Apologies, I updated it. class MyModelAdmin(ModelAdmin): model = MyModel form = MyForm def get_form(self, request, obj=None, **kwargs): form_class = super(MyModelAdmin, self).get_form(request, obj=obj, **kwargs) some_parameter_for_one_thing =

Re: ModelAdmin missing a couple of key features, or am I doing this wrong?

I just realized that get_form is already passed the model instance as obj, so that fixes getting he model instance (for this method at least -- hopefully I don't need to override another method that doesn't get obj). Still need a better way to customize how a form instance is initialized,

Re: ModelAdmin missing a couple of key features, or am I doing this wrong?

I'm having trouble finding any related tickets other than this one, which is 8 years old: https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/10305 On Thursday, September 15, 2016 at 5:34:50 PM UTC-7, Tim Graham wrote: > > I think these ideas have been floated before. If you look through the Trac > tickets

Re: ModelAdmin missing a couple of key features, or am I doing this wrong?

Hi Tim, thanks for the reply :) It's not that I want to store the model instance on self.instance, it's just the solution I was able to come up with, given the problem "I need to get to the model instance for this HTTP request". If there's a better way to do it, I'm all ears! T On Thursday,

ModelAdmin missing a couple of key features, or am I doing this wrong?

I have a ModelAdmin subclass (code at: ) and I need to do a couple of things, but the functionality seems to be missing: 1. I need to access the model instance to perform some initialization, but there's no instance member set. There are a few questions on Stack Overflow

Loading fixtures inside a transaction

Is it possible to have the `loaddata` manage command use a transaction when loading a fixture? -- 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