Hi Mike, see if the documentation at the bottom of https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/stable/topics/forms/formsets/#django.forms.formsets.BaseFormSet.can_delete helps.
On Monday, December 21, 2015 at 4:00:36 AM UTC-5, James Schneider wrote: > > > > That is true. However, if commit was False that object wouldn't be > deleted but it would still appear in the self.deleted_objects list. My > concern - or more accurately lack of understanding - is that the object > would remain in existence AND appear in the deleted list. This was > precisely what happened in my project and which I was trying to debug. > > > > Why would you expect anything to be changed in the database when > commit=False? > > My interpretation is that self.deleted_items is referring to the items > that were selected in the form[set] for deletion, and wouldn't refer to the > state of the items per the DB, given that 'self' is a Form/Formset in this > case. I totally understand the confusion, though. > > I would suspect that you either need a super() call somewhere, or take > care to also delete those items. > > > The symptom in the Admin was a checked box for deleting a child record > which stubbornly stayed there despite the Admin reporting a successful save. > > > > Mike > > > > Yeah, been there on my own forms from time to time. > > -James > -- 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 [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/django-users. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/django-users/8747c012-8398-44b8-b90c-ccbfcd020491%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
