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Fixed #36075 -- Documented how to introspect composite primary keys.
Document _meta.pk_fields and interactions between Field.primary_key and CompositePrimaryKey. Thanks Mariusz for the review.
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@ -542,18 +542,20 @@ cross-site scripting attack.
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If ``True``, this field is the primary key for the model.
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If you don't specify ``primary_key=True`` for any field in your model, Django
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will automatically add a field to hold the primary key, so you don't need to
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set ``primary_key=True`` on any of your fields unless you want to override the
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default primary-key behavior. The type of auto-created primary key fields can
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be specified per app in :attr:`AppConfig.default_auto_field
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<django.apps.AppConfig.default_auto_field>` or globally in the
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:setting:`DEFAULT_AUTO_FIELD` setting. For more, see
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If you don't specify ``primary_key=True`` for any field in your model and have
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not defined a composite primary key, Django will automatically add a field to
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hold the primary key. So, you don't need to set ``primary_key=True`` on any of
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your fields unless you want to override the default primary-key behavior. The
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type of auto-created primary key fields can be specified per app in
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:attr:`AppConfig.default_auto_field <django.apps.AppConfig.default_auto_field>`
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or globally in the :setting:`DEFAULT_AUTO_FIELD` setting. For more, see
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:ref:`automatic-primary-key-fields`.
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``primary_key=True`` implies :attr:`null=False <Field.null>` and
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:attr:`unique=True <Field.unique>`. Only one primary key is allowed on an
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object.
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:attr:`unique=True <Field.unique>`. Only one field per model can set
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``primary_key=True``. Composite primary keys must be defined using
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:class:`CompositePrimaryKey` instead of setting this flag to ``True`` for all
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fields to maintain this invariant.
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The primary key field is read-only. If you change the value of the primary
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key on an existing object and then save it, a new object will be created
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@ -562,6 +564,10 @@ alongside the old one.
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The primary key field is set to ``None`` when
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:meth:`deleting <django.db.models.Model.delete>` an object.
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.. versionchanged:: 5.2
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The ``CompositePrimaryKey`` field was added.
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``unique``
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----------
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@ -13,10 +13,11 @@ understand the capabilities of each model. The API is accessible through
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the ``_meta`` attribute of each model class, which is an instance of an
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``django.db.models.options.Options`` object.
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Methods that it provides can be used to:
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Methods and attributes that it provides can be used to:
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* Retrieve all field instances of a model
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* Retrieve a single field instance of a model by name
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* Retrieve all fields that compose the primary key of a model
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.. _model-meta-field-api:
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@ -118,3 +119,42 @@ Retrieving all field instances of a model
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<django.db.models.fields.DateTimeField: date_joined>,
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<django.db.models.fields.related.ManyToManyField: groups>,
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<django.db.models.fields.related.ManyToManyField: user_permissions>)
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Retrieving fields composing the primary key of a model
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.. versionadded:: 5.2
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.. attribute:: Options.pk_fields
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Returns a list of the fields composing the primary key of a model.
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When a :class:`composite primary key <django.db.models.CompositePrimaryKey>`
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is defined on a model it will contain all the
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:class:`fields <django.db.models.Field>` referenced by it.
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.. code-block:: python
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from django.db import models
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class TenantUser(models.Model):
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pk = models.CompositePrimaryKey("tenant_id", "id")
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tenant_id = models.IntegerField()
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id = models.IntegerField()
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.. code-block:: pycon
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>>> TenantUser._meta.pk_fields
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[
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<django.db.models.fields.IntegerField: tenant_id>,
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<django.db.models.fields.IntegerField: id>
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]
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Otherwise it will contain the single field declared as the
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:attr:`primary key <django.db.models.Field.primary_key>` of the model.
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.. code-block:: pycon
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>>> User._meta.pk_fields
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[<django.db.models.fields.AutoField: id>]
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This is also true of composite primary keys. Hence, you may want to set
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:attr:`.Field.editable` to ``False`` on all primary key fields to exclude
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them from ModelForms.
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Building composite primary key ready applications
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=================================================
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Prior to the introduction of composite primary keys, the single field composing
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the primary key of a model could be retrieved by introspecting the
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:attr:`primary key <django.db.models.Field.primary_key>` attribute of its
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fields:
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.. code-block:: pycon
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>>> pk_field = None
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>>> for field in Product._meta.get_fields():
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... if field.primary_key:
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... pk_field = field
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... break
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...
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>>> pk_field
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<django.db.models.fields.AutoField: id>
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Now that a primary key can be composed of multiple fields the
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:attr:`primary key <django.db.models.Field.primary_key>` attribute can no
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longer be relied upon to identify members of the primary key as it will be set
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to ``False`` to maintain the invariant that at most one field per model will
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have this attribute set to ``True``:
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.. code-block:: pycon
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>>> pk_fields = []
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>>> for field in OrderLineItem._meta.get_fields():
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... if field.primary_key:
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... pk_fields.append(field)
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...
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>>> pk_fields
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[]
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In order to build application code that properly handles composite primary
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keys the :attr:`_meta.pk_fields <django.db.models.options.Options.pk_fields>`
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attribute should be used instead:
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.. code-block:: pycon
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>>> Product._meta.pk_fields
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[<django.db.models.fields.AutoField: id>]
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>>> OrderLineItem._meta.pk_fields
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[
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<django.db.models.fields.ForeignKey: product>,
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<django.db.models.fields.ForeignKey: order>
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]
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