Duplicating model instances and their related objects in Django / Algorithm for recusrively duplicating an object

Question

I\'ve models for Books, Chapters and Pages. They are all written by a User:

from django.db import models
         


        

Answer 1

Simple non generic way

Proposed solutions didn't work for me, so I went the simple, not clever way. This is only useful for simple cases.

For a model with the following structure

Book
 |__ CroppedFace
 |__ Photo
      |__ AwsReco
            |__ AwsLabel
            |__ AwsFace
                  |__ AwsEmotion

this works

def duplicate_book(book: Book, new_user: MyUser):
    # AwsEmotion, AwsFace, AwsLabel, AwsReco, Photo, CroppedFace, Book

    old_cropped_faces = book.croppedface_set.all()
    old_photos = book.photo_set.all()

    book.pk = None
    book.user = new_user
    book.save()

    for cf in old_cropped_faces:
        cf.pk = None
        cf.book = book
        cf.save()

    for photo in old_photos:
        photo.pk = None
        photo.book = book
        photo.save()

        if hasattr(photo, 'awsreco'):
            reco = photo.awsreco
            old_aws_labels = reco.awslabel_set.all()
            old_aws_faces = reco.awsface_set.all()
            reco.pk = None
            reco.photo = photo
            reco.save()

            for label in old_aws_labels:
                label.pk = None
                label.reco = reco
                label.save()

            for face in old_aws_faces:
                old_aws_emotions = face.awsemotion_set.all()
                face.pk = None
                face.reco = reco
                face.save()

                for emotion in old_aws_emotions:
                    emotion.pk = None
                    emotion.aws_face = face
                    emotion.save()
    return book