hmm, don't know. that's the documented approach. you might want to
investigate intermediary tables/models etc.
On 9 Dec 2008, at 09:24, Darthmahon wrote:
>
> Ahh yes possibly. Any downsides to using this?
>
> On Dec 9, 9:19 am, Ben Eliott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Do you want something like this?
>> friends_new = models.ManyToManyField("self",symmetrical=False)
>>
>> On 9 Dec 2008, at 09:06, Darthmahon wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>> Hi Guys,
>>
>>> Just bumping this up as I still can't figure out why this is
>>> happening :/
>>
>>> On Dec 8, 9:27 pm, Darthmahon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>>> Hi Guys,
>>
>>>> I've got a model that has a Many to Many relationship on one of the
>>>> fields. This relationship is basically on itself though like this:
>>
>>>> #####################
>>
>>>> class UserProfile(models.Model):
>>
>>>> user = models.ForeignKey(User,
>>>> unique=True)
>>>> friends_new = models.ManyToManyField('UserProfile',
>>>> blank=True,
>>>> related_name='friend_set_new')
>>
>>>> #####################
>>
>>>> I'm trying to "add" to the friends_new field using this code:
>>
>>>> #####################
>>
>>>> # get users
>>>> initiator_profile = UserProfile.objects.get(user=request.user.id)
>>>> recipient_profile = UserProfile.objects.get(user=username)
>>
>>>> # now add them as a friend
>>>> initiator_profile.friends_new.add(recipient_profile)
>>
>>>> #####################
>>
>>>> Now the problem I'm having is that it is adding the friendship to
>>>> BOTH
>>>> userprofiles, initiator and recipient. And when I try to remove the
>>>> relationship, again it removes BOTH. So in the database it has two
>>>> entries when I only expect there to be one.
>>
>>>> Hope I've made that clear enough, any ideas how to get around this?
>>
>>>> Cheers,
>>>> Chris
> >
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