The only log entries I want committed are the ones that tell me why a
roll-back occurred. What you've said below sounds like a good enough
solution, thanks for all your input.

Cheers,
Chris

On Mon, Jun 8, 2009 at 11:38 PM, Karen Tracey <kmtra...@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Jun 8, 2009 at 5:39 AM, Chris Stoyles <cstoy...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi Thomas,
>>
>> The reason I want to be able to rollback (but still commit by log entries)
>> is because it is sometimes valid for this particular view to throw an
>> exception and fail. If this happens, I need to rollback any model objects
>> that have been created and saved up to the point at which the view fails
>> (again, except for any logging that has been done). The view contains a big
>> try/except statement and the rollback is in the "except" part.
>>
>> I may have to approach this a different way, because it doesn't look like
>> I can easily do a fine-grained commit.
>>
>
> Sounds like the easiest thing to do would be to accumulate (but not call
> save() on) LogEntry objects as you do the work, then at the end either after
> you have either rolled back the main work or are about to commit it, save()
> whatever LogEntry objects you have accumulated.  (I'd probably also want to
> indicate in the entries associated with work that was ultimately rolled back
> that that happened, otherwise it seems the log might be a bit confusing,
> containing entries for stuff that ultimately got rolled back...but maybe
> that's not an issue for the log you are keeping?)
>
> Karen
>
> >
>

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