How do I make an auto increment integer field in Django?

Question

I am making an Order model for a shopping cart and I need to make a field that auto increments when the order is made:

class Order(models.Model)         


        

Answer 1

What I needed: A document number with a fixed number of integers that would also act like an AutoField.

My searches took me all over incl. this page.

Finally I did something like this:

I created a table with a DocuNumber field as an IntegerField with foll. attributes:

• max_length=6
• primary_key=True
• unique=True
• default=100000

The max_length value anything as required (and thus the corresponding default= value).

A warning is issued while creating the said model, which I could ignore.

Afterwards, created a document (dummy) whence as expected, the document had an integer field value of 100000.

Afterwards changed the model key field as:

• Changed the field type as: AutoField
• Got rid of the max_length And defaultattributes
• Retained the primary_key = True attribute

The next (desired document) created had the value as 100001 with subsequent numbers getting incremented by 1.

So far so good.