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| author | Russell Keith-Magee <russell@keith-magee.com> | 2010-01-08 00:21:45 +0000 |
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| committer | Russell Keith-Magee <russell@keith-magee.com> | 2010-01-08 00:21:45 +0000 |
| commit | 4bbbf6cc12fded628fc5115523907be691c0d13b (patch) | |
| tree | 016a7931d0983268f7dad602aa163663ed5a2bf0 /docs/ref | |
| parent | 3de16688a93d64154dea1f5517d3e9e80b97b080 (diff) | |
[1.1.X] Updated the docs to suggest using ``*args, **kwargs`` when implementing model save methods. Thanks to Jeff Croft for the report.
Partial backport of r12118 from trunk.
git-svn-id: http://code.djangoproject.com/svn/django/branches/releases/1.1.X@12119 bcc190cf-cafb-0310-a4f2-bffc1f526a37
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| -rw-r--r-- | docs/ref/models/instances.txt | 26 |
1 files changed, 16 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/docs/ref/models/instances.txt b/docs/ref/models/instances.txt index 7a0606dafe..3b813ff54c 100644 --- a/docs/ref/models/instances.txt +++ b/docs/ref/models/instances.txt @@ -34,13 +34,15 @@ To save an object back to the database, call ``save()``: .. method:: Model.save([force_insert=False, force_update=False]) -Of course, there are some subtleties; see the sections below. - .. versionadded:: 1.0 + The ``force_insert`` and ``force_update`` arguments were added. + +If you want customized saving behavior, you can override this +``save()`` method. See :ref:`overriding-model-methods` for more +details. -The signature of the ``save()`` method has changed from earlier versions -(``force_insert`` and ``force_update`` have been added). If you are overriding -these methods, be sure to use the correct signature. +The model save process also has some subtleties; see the sections +below. Auto-incrementing primary keys ------------------------------ @@ -233,12 +235,16 @@ Deleting objects .. method:: Model.delete() - Issues a SQL ``DELETE`` for the object. This only deletes the object in the - database; the Python instance will still be around, and will still have data - in its fields. +Issues a SQL ``DELETE`` for the object. This only deletes the object +in the database; the Python instance will still be around, and will +still have data in its fields. + +For more details, including how to delete objects in bulk, see +:ref:`topics-db-queries-delete`. - For more details, including how to delete objects in bulk, see - :ref:`topics-db-queries-delete`. +If you want customized deletion behavior, you can override this +``delete()`` method. See :ref:`overriding-model-methods` for more +details. .. _model-instance-methods: |