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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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Simon Charette 2025-01-12 23:06:46 -05:00 committed by Sarah Boyce
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@ -542,18 +542,20 @@ cross-site scripting attack.
If ``True``, this field is the primary key for the model.
If you don't specify ``primary_key=True`` for any field in your model, Django
will automatically add a field to hold the primary key, so you don't need to
set ``primary_key=True`` on any of your fields unless you want to override the
default primary-key behavior. The type of auto-created primary key fields can
be specified per app in :attr:`AppConfig.default_auto_field
<django.apps.AppConfig.default_auto_field>` or globally in the
:setting:`DEFAULT_AUTO_FIELD` setting. For more, see
If you don't specify ``primary_key=True`` for any field in your model and have
not defined a composite primary key, Django will automatically add a field to
hold the primary key. So, you don't need to set ``primary_key=True`` on any of
your fields unless you want to override the default primary-key behavior. The
type of auto-created primary key fields can be specified per app in
:attr:`AppConfig.default_auto_field <django.apps.AppConfig.default_auto_field>`
or globally in the :setting:`DEFAULT_AUTO_FIELD` setting. For more, see
:ref:`automatic-primary-key-fields`.
``primary_key=True`` implies :attr:`null=False <Field.null>` and
:attr:`unique=True <Field.unique>`. Only one primary key is allowed on an
object.
:attr:`unique=True <Field.unique>`. Only one field per model can set
``primary_key=True``. Composite primary keys must be defined using
:class:`CompositePrimaryKey` instead of setting this flag to ``True`` for all
fields to maintain this invariant.
The primary key field is read-only. If you change the value of the primary
key on an existing object and then save it, a new object will be created
@ -562,6 +564,10 @@ alongside the old one.
The primary key field is set to ``None`` when
:meth:`deleting <django.db.models.Model.delete>` an object.
.. versionchanged:: 5.2
The ``CompositePrimaryKey`` field was added.
``unique``
----------

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@ -13,10 +13,11 @@ understand the capabilities of each model. The API is accessible through
the ``_meta`` attribute of each model class, which is an instance of an
``django.db.models.options.Options`` object.
Methods that it provides can be used to:
Methods and attributes that it provides can be used to:
* Retrieve all field instances of a model
* Retrieve a single field instance of a model by name
* Retrieve all fields that compose the primary key of a model
.. _model-meta-field-api:
@ -118,3 +119,42 @@ Retrieving all field instances of a model
<django.db.models.fields.DateTimeField: date_joined>,
<django.db.models.fields.related.ManyToManyField: groups>,
<django.db.models.fields.related.ManyToManyField: user_permissions>)
Retrieving fields composing the primary key of a model
------------------------------------------------------
.. versionadded:: 5.2
.. attribute:: Options.pk_fields
Returns a list of the fields composing the primary key of a model.
When a :class:`composite primary key <django.db.models.CompositePrimaryKey>`
is defined on a model it will contain all the
:class:`fields <django.db.models.Field>` referenced by it.
.. code-block:: python
from django.db import models
class TenantUser(models.Model):
pk = models.CompositePrimaryKey("tenant_id", "id")
tenant_id = models.IntegerField()
id = models.IntegerField()
.. code-block:: pycon
>>> TenantUser._meta.pk_fields
[
<django.db.models.fields.IntegerField: tenant_id>,
<django.db.models.fields.IntegerField: id>
]
Otherwise it will contain the single field declared as the
:attr:`primary key <django.db.models.Field.primary_key>` of the model.
.. code-block:: pycon
>>> User._meta.pk_fields
[<django.db.models.fields.AutoField: id>]

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@ -185,3 +185,52 @@ field :exc:`.FieldError`.
This is also true of composite primary keys. Hence, you may want to set
:attr:`.Field.editable` to ``False`` on all primary key fields to exclude
them from ModelForms.
Building composite primary key ready applications
=================================================
Prior to the introduction of composite primary keys, the single field composing
the primary key of a model could be retrieved by introspecting the
:attr:`primary key <django.db.models.Field.primary_key>` attribute of its
fields:
.. code-block:: pycon
>>> pk_field = None
>>> for field in Product._meta.get_fields():
... if field.primary_key:
... pk_field = field
... break
...
>>> pk_field
<django.db.models.fields.AutoField: id>
Now that a primary key can be composed of multiple fields the
:attr:`primary key <django.db.models.Field.primary_key>` attribute can no
longer be relied upon to identify members of the primary key as it will be set
to ``False`` to maintain the invariant that at most one field per model will
have this attribute set to ``True``:
.. code-block:: pycon
>>> pk_fields = []
>>> for field in OrderLineItem._meta.get_fields():
... if field.primary_key:
... pk_fields.append(field)
...
>>> pk_fields
[]
In order to build application code that properly handles composite primary
keys the :attr:`_meta.pk_fields <django.db.models.options.Options.pk_fields>`
attribute should be used instead:
.. code-block:: pycon
>>> Product._meta.pk_fields
[<django.db.models.fields.AutoField: id>]
>>> OrderLineItem._meta.pk_fields
[
<django.db.models.fields.ForeignKey: product>,
<django.db.models.fields.ForeignKey: order>
]