http://stackoverflow.com/questions/30425468/django-updating-members-of-modelformset-with-unique-fields
The situation - I have a model and inline formset like:
class ProductImage(models.Model):
product = models.ForeignKey('Product')
display_order = models.PositiveSmallIntegerField(default=0)
class Meta:
unique_together = (('product', 'display_order'),)
inlineformset_factory(
Product, ProductImage, form=ProductImageForm, extra=1)
In the front end I provide a UI to reorder the images for a given product.
The problem:
- Let's say I already saved two images attached to <Product id=1>.
- These two images have display_order=0 and display_order=1 respectively.
- now I upload a third image, give it display_order=0 while renumbering
the existing images to display_order=2 and display_order=1 respectively.
At this point I get a validation error for the unique check.
Looking through Django source code we find this in BaseModelFormSet.save:
return self.save_existing_objects(commit) + self.save_new_objects(commit)
...ok that looks all good, it will save (update) the existing objects
first. So from the perspective of the db there is no conflict in the unique
constraints.
The problem is that saving comes *after* validation, or course, and at the
point of validation the new objects will conflict with existing ones in the
db.
It seems like BaseModelFormSet needs some mechanism whereby it could take
into account the about-to-be-updated values from its form instances.
Does anyone have a workaround that does not involve pushing the problem
onto the user?
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