Re: lambda callable in foreignkey default

For the record I figured it out but it had nothing to do with the lambda: in my template I have a something like: {{ my_project_lookup_class.classname.get_verbose_name }} lookup_class.classname will the return the django model class, and the template engine apparently checks if the class is

Re: lambda callable in foreignkey default

Probably not it, but try: ...(RestaurantType, default = lambda: (RestaurantType.objects.all()[0])) And note that your alternate will fail if RestaurantType object with id==1 is ever deleted. On Tue, Nov 26, 2013 at 7:31 AM, Philippe Raoult wrote: > > I ran into a

lambda callable in foreignkey default

I ran into a strange issue today when trying to use a lambda function for the default value of a ForeignKey. my original code was this, and I expected it would look for RestaurantType instances whenever I would try to create a Restaurant: type_of_restaurant = models.ForeignKey(RestaurantType,