Multiple 'self' referencing ManyToManyFields in one model overwrite each other's data

[notanumber]

Defining multiple ManyToManyFields in one model is problematic. When updating one field, all of the others are updated with the same data.

For example, in the following model:

from django.db import models

class Job(models.Model):
    
    title = models.CharField(max_length=100)
    reports_to = models.ManyToManyField('self', null=True, blank=True, related_name='reports_to_set')
    supervises = models.ManyToManyField('self', null=True, blank=True, related_name='supervises_set')

    class Admin:
        pass
        
    def __unicode__(self):
        return self.title

Updating a user's data, "Bill", 'reports_to' to read "John", also sets 'supervises' to "John" as well. Obviously, in this case at least, this is not the desired behaviour.

Adding symmetrical=False does not correct this issue, but raises another: When updating "Bill" to 'reports_to' "John", we end up with both users having "John" & "Bill" in their 'reports_to' & 'supervises' fields.

Tested this on WindowsXP, using SQLite3 & the built-in 'runserver' command.

The test application & project is attached to this ticket. The admin user/password is "test"/"test123"

[David Sauve <dnsauve@…>]

Test appliction and project

[Malcolm Tredinnick]

I'm unable to replicate any of the problems here. I never have the reports_to field being updated when the supervises field is set, or vice-versa. I also always have the various many-to-many fields containing exactly the information I set them to. This is the same whether I use the shell or the admin interface (using trunk's subversion code).

Can you please give step-by-step instructions starting from a clean database of how you create even one of these problems.

[David Sauve]

Hmmm. I can't seem to replicate this issue myself, anymore.

Maybe it was a side effect of something else? Guess I'll withdraw this bug.