Default manager and model init methods should allow raw field name arguments for foreign keys

[Simon Litchfield <simon@…>]

I can do this --

profile = Profile(name='Example')
profile.user_id = 47
profile.save()

But not this --

profile = Profile(name='Example', user_id=47)
profile.save()

Also can't get_or_create, or do anything much with only user_id directly. Apparently I need to instantiate a User object just for the sake of it(?) Turns out either a big overhead (50+ extra queries on this particular page!) -or- a bunch of unnecessary code.

More importantly though, it seems at least a bit confusing and inconsistent, that I can access it by attribute but not by argument.

Surely it would be easy enough to allow fieldname_id as init/filter arguments on foreign keys. If anyone else agrees, I'll run up the patch?

[James Bennett]

Passing the "_id"-style argument directly into the model constructor works for me on current trunk. Similarly, it works in create, and it works in the defaults argument to get_or_create.

[Simon Litchfield <simon@…>]

Sorry, correction, see #5585