Den 16/01/2014 kl. 14.27 skrev Johannes Schneider
<johannes.schnei...@galileo-press.de>:
> Hi List,
> I need to check, if a given instance of a Model already exists in the
> Database. I cannot check 'instance.pk is None', because there are manually
> given PKs (no discussion about this plz).
>
> Up to now I check if 'instance._state.adding' is true. But I don't like this
> solution.
> Checking 'InstanceModel.objects.exists(pk=self.pk)' generates too much
> queries, so this is not acceptable in my case.
Can you elaborate on “too much queries”? exists() is supposed to be the
cheapest way of checking if the object exists. It seems like you want to check
the database, without actually checking the database…
If you want to check a large number of objects at the same time, just do
something like:
InstanceModel.objects.filter(id__in=(your, list, of, PKs)).values_list('id',
flat=True)
to get all pre-existing PKs in one query.
Erik
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