Re: How to make recursive ManyToMany relationships through an intermediate model symmetrical

After playing with this to answer your question and to correct my previous response, I found that it does work as documented when using a "through" model without using "through_fields". from django.db import models class Person(models.Model): name = models.CharField(max_length=255) fr

Re: How to make recursive ManyToMany relationships through an intermediate model symmetrical

Thanks for all for the replies! @David, the helper function works as expected. >>> from people.models import Person, Friendship >>> bill = Person(name='bill') >>> bill.save() >>> ted = Person(name='ted') >>> ted.save() >>> bill.add_friendship(ted, True) (, True) >>> bill.friends.all() ] ted.f

Re: How to make recursive ManyToMany relationships through an intermediate model symmetrical

Just to add, I don't think django supports symmetrical M2M relations with additional data / explicit through model without the shim I suggested. For example, this works: from django.db import models class Person(models.Model): name = models.CharField(max_length=255) friends = models.M

Re: How to make recursive ManyToMany relationships through an intermediate model symmetrical

With your example, you can also find the records through>>> ted.person_set.all(). On Friday, October 16, 2020 at 7:05:51 PM UTC-4 David Nugent wrote: > This is expected with your code. You've created an asymmetric > relationship from bill to ted, but not the reverse. This would be > appropri

Re: How to make recursive ManyToMany relationships through an intermediate model symmetrical

This is expected with your code. You've created an asymmetric relationship from bill to ted, but not the reverse. This would be appropriate in a "follow" relationship. For symmetric relationships you need to create records in both directions. There are a few ways to do this but a helper functio

How to make recursive ManyToMany relationships through an intermediate model symmetrical

There are no responses to the same question on stackoverflow, so hopefully someone here can provide a solution.   I've read the docs.