Maybe it's a bug in my branch..I'm using the multiple db branch... but the other method Mike pointed out appears to work. Tomorrow I'm going to tie it all together and have my save method only fire save if there are dirty fields, and log what data has been changed into my event table...
Thanks again everyone! On Aug 29, 4:13 pm, Doug B <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hmm. It works in shell for me, I'm not sure what the difference might > be. It only keeps _original_data for the life of the instance, so if > the view completes, the next view is a different instance. You could > make a pickle field to persist it, if you wanted to keep track of the > changed values. > > In [2]: m=cm.MarketingStatus(marketing_status_name="Test Name", > marketing_status_description="Testing signals") > In [3]: m.save() > In [4]: m.marketing_status_name="Changed this" > In [5]: m.marketing_status_name > Out[5]: 'Changed this' > In [6]: m._original_data['marketing_status_name'] > Out[6]: 'Test Name' > > I added a couple print statements to print testing and testing 2 in > the save method: > > In [2]: m=cm.MarketingStatus.objects.all()[0] > In [3]: m.marketing_status_name = "changed again" > In [4]: m.save() > testing: Test Name > testing2: changed again > > ----- using this code ---- > def backup_model_data(sender, instance, signal, *args, **kwargs): > instance._original_data = instance.__dict__.copy() > > class MarketingStatus(models.Model): > marketing_status_id = models.AutoField(primary_key=True) > marketing_status_name = models.CharField(blank=True, maxlength=30) > marketing_status_description = > models.CharField(blank=True,maxlength=255) > > def save(self): > testing =self._original_data['marketing_status_name'] > testing2 = self.marketing_status_name > print "testing: %s" % testing > print "testing2: %s" % testing2 > super(MarketingStatus, self).save() > > dispatcher.connect(backup_model_data,signal=signals.post_init,sender=MarketingStatus) --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
