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Georgie Porgie
Georgie Porgie

Reputation: 2210

How is transaction managed in Django's admin commands?

I just wonder how is transaction managed in django's admin commands. Commit on save? Commit on success? I can't find related info from official documents.

Upvotes: 8

Views: 3326

Answers (2)

andyhasit
andyhasit

Reputation: 15289

Management command operations are not wrapped in transactions unless you tell them to.

You can tell the handle() method to be wrapped in a transaction by setting the output_transaction attribute to True. From the docs:

BaseCommand.output_transaction

A boolean indicating whether the command outputs SQL statements; if True, the output will automatically be wrapped with BEGIN; and COMMIT;. Default value is False.

For more control you can always initiate transactions yourself:

...
def handle(self, *args, **options):
    with transaction.atomic():
        do_your_stuff()

Upvotes: 5

mohi666
mohi666

Reputation: 7032

I'm not too sure, but admin forms don't reach to the commit point unless they meet clean() requirements. After that I guess everything will be committed. This behavior should be sufficient for the default forms in admin. However, for more complex forms, you can create your custom admin form and I'm pretty sure you can define whether or not you want to commit on success or on save.

Upvotes: -1

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