Opened 8 years ago
Last modified 8 years ago
#27503 new New feature
Provide a way for to-many rels to be used without the db
Reported by: | Marc Tamlyn | Owned by: | nobody |
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Component: | Database layer (models, ORM) | Version: | dev |
Severity: | Normal | Keywords: | |
Cc: | Triage Stage: | Accepted | |
Has patch: | no | Needs documentation: | no |
Needs tests: | no | Patch needs improvement: | no |
Easy pickings: | no | UI/UX: | no |
Description
ManyToMany or reverse to many relationships should have a reasonable way to interact with them without them touching the database.
It's hard to think about what this would look like, but it could look something like:
>>> user.groups.set(users) >>> user.groups._cache == users # Very explicit, unlikely to mesh well with future access code ... True >>> user.groups.all() == users # Via prefetch cache. Nicer but could be confusing ... True >>> user.groups.save() # explicit commit >>> user.save_pending_m2m() # saves all m2ms with a pending update
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*-to-one relationships support attaching unsaved objects; it would be nice to do something similar for *-to-many relationships.