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maroof shittu
maroof shittu

Reputation: 2107

How to rename a django model in an application by changing letter case

I have a django model in my app that looks like this(assuming all required modules are imported)

class profile(models.Model):
    user = models.OneToOneField(User)
    mobile_regex = RegexValidator(regex=r'^\+?1?\d{9,15}$', message="phone number must be entered in hte format '+23474857934'. Up to 15 digits allowed")
    mobile = models.CharField(validators=[mobile_regex], max_length=15, blank=True, null=True)

I made a (silly)mistake spelling the profile name(using a lowercase to start the model name instead of uppercase), and would like to correct this, is there a way to this without affecting the data that might already be stored.

changing the name from profile to Profile and making a migration doesn't reflect the change, and I don't get the usual.. "Did you rename appname.oldModelName to appname.NewModelName? [y/N]" query

I'm sorry if this question seems a bit trivial,I'm a newbie at django thanks for understanding

Upvotes: 1

Views: 845

Answers (1)

maroof shittu
maroof shittu

Reputation: 2107

I found a way to work around this

Django does not recognize a rename if you only change the letter case so, these steps helped me solved the problem:

  1. change the name of the model completely(Something simple like 'temp'), and run the makemigrations command (this will be recognized and django will ask you if you want to rename- enter 'y')

  2. then change it back this time using the proper casing for the letters

  3. then run the makemigrations command again. and rename.

This only affects the model name and not the table name in your actual database(these are usually named in all lowercase by default)

Upvotes: 1

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