Hello. If you changing some fields of Author, books will not changed, except you changed Author.id. I think it would be much clear if you will provide some real python example.
On Sunday, July 3, 2016 at 5:20:40 PM UTC+3, Hermano Cabral wrote: > > Hello guys and gals, > > Assuming a simple django project where you have models Author and Book > (pseudo code): > > Author: > - Name = char field > - Birthdate = date field > > Book: > - Name = char field > - Author = foreign key (Author) > > Is there a way to freeze books in a way that changes to an author are not > propagated to its books? I know I can denormalize the Book model to > accomplish that, but I'm looking for another way to do that. I tried using > some of the versioning apps out there but none of them work well for my > case. > > The scenario I have is that some of my models cannot be changed after they > are entered into the system, for example, if the "Bible" Book is entered > into the system with the Author "Jedus Christ", when someone catches the > typo and changes the Author name to "Jesus Christ" the Book "Bible" would > still need to have "Jebus Christ" as it's Author. > > Thanks. > > Sent from my iPhone -- 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/b89ac939-4065-4390-bfe5-65c70cf8f3a0%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
