#31310: Wrong hint about recursive relationship
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Reporter: Matheus | Owner: nobody
Cunha Motta |
Type: | Status: new
Cleanup/optimization |
Component: Database | Version: 3.0
layer (models, ORM) |
Severity: Normal | Keywords:
Triage Stage: | Has patch: 0
Unreviewed |
Needs documentation: 0 | Needs tests: 0
Patch needs improvement: 0 | Easy pickings: 1
UI/UX: 0 |
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When there's more than 2 ForeignKeys pointing to the same model in an
intermediary model of a m2m field and no through_fields have been set,
Django will show an error with the following hint:
{{{#!python
hint=(
'If you want to create a recursive relationship, '
'use ForeignKey("%s", symmetrical=False, through="%s").'
}}}
But to create a recursive relationship the ManyToManyField should be used
instead of ForeignKey. Also symmetrical=False should only be used with m2m
fields, according to model field reference (link:
https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/3.0/ref/models/fields/#django.db.models.ManyToManyField.symmetrical).
And more than that, setting symmetrical=False is not required for
recursive relationships since Django >= 3.0.
This was probably a small mistake where the developer thought
ManyToManyField but typed ForeignKey instead. And the symmetrical=False is
an outdated requirement to recursive relationships, not applicable since
3.0. I'll provide a PR with a proposed correction shortly after.
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Ticket URL: <https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/31310>
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