Comments on: INSERT or UPDATE in django’s save() method

By: Karol Zielinski

Karol Zielinski — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 10:46:20 +0000

Sure, you can. However… only if you call save() method by hand. If it’s used by admin panel – you can’t force any parameters.

I had a problem: I wanted to add information about new articles (added from admin panel) to twitter (automatic adding). I wanted to add it only if it’s new item (and not to add information to twitter if it’s edit).

So… I had to check it inside the method.

By: Jacob Kaplan-Moss

Jacob Kaplan-Moss — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 15:23:23 +0000

Also note you can force an insert or an update with `model.save(force_insert=True)` or `force_update=true` (see http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.1/ref/models/instances/#forcing-an-insert-or-update for more details).

By: John Sutherland

John Sutherland — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 13:27:32 +0000

I would suggest adding *args, and **kwargs to your function definition, and passing them in the call to the super-class’s save:

http://code.djangoproject.com/browser/django/trunk/django/db/models/base.py#L420

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