Opened 15 years ago

Closed 15 years ago

#10351 closed (duplicate)

Omision from the documentation for Model Instances page

Reported by: dhead@… Owned by: nobody
Component: Documentation Version: 1.0
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Description

I discovered a surprising omission from the docs today:
http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/models/instances/#ref-models-instances

The following paragraph suggests that delete() would have been documented above it, but only save() is.


Extra instance methods

In addition to save(), delete(), a model object might get any or all of the following methods:


I may be looking in the wrong place but I couldn't find any documentation for the delete() function for model instances in the docs. While it's fairly self explainitory and I've pretty much been able to figure out the answer to my question through experimetation (whether delete() is instant or requires a call to save() to make the change in the DB).

I say this was a suprising ommision because Django's docs are about the best I have used for any bit of software.

Change History (3)

comment:1 by Karen Tracey, 15 years ago

http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/topics/db/queries/#deleting-objects is where delete() is described in detail. Not really sure why it's under "Making Queries", it seems like the model instance reference is a more logical place. However, I haven't sat down and read all through either page, so I'm not sure if it flows better where it is or if it would be better moved over to the instance reference somewhere.

comment:2 by Karen Tracey, 15 years ago

#9503 looks to already cover this.

comment:3 by Karen Tracey, 15 years ago

Resolution: duplicate
Status: newclosed
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