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Override QuerySet.delete() (one way of preventing cascading deletes)

Author:
timbroder
Posted:
January 7, 2010
Language:
Python
Version:
1.1
Score:
0 (after 0 ratings)

We needed to override the default QuerySet delete function to deal with a client problem that we were facing

Yes This is monkey-patching, and probably bad practice but if anyone needs to conditionally override the cascading delete that django does at the application level from a queryset, this is how to do it

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from django.db.models.query import QuerySet

#save original delete method
orrigdelete = QuerySet.delete
def showdelete(self):
    #add on to delete method
    for test in self:
        if isinstance(test, YourObject):
            raise Exception('someone tried to delete your object')
            return  
        else:
            break   
    #call original delete
    return orrigdelete(self)

#set the queryset delete as our new method
QuerySet.delete = showdelete

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