Hi, because of hysterical raisins I need that the models of a simple app I was tasked upon have their primary fields to consist of strings of randomly generated characters (think something like '876nce8yr85yndxw45') of a given length. I'm trying to create a super class that provides this facility, so that the actual models derive from it. I came up with
class CustomModel(models.Model): id = models.CharField(max_length=12 primary_key=True) class Meta: abstract = True def save(self, force_insert=False, force_update=False): if not self.id: try: while True: id = random_identifier() self.__class__.objects.get(pk=id) except self.__class__.DoesNotExist: self.id = id models.Model.save(self, force_insert, force_update) apart for a window of collisions on clusters, is there a better way to accomplish this? Ideas? Thanks a lot, Amit. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-us...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en.