Unique BooleanField value in Django?

Question

Suppose my models.py is like so:

class Character(models.Model):
    name = models.CharField(max_length=255)
    is_the_chosen_one = models.BooleanField()
         


        

Answer 1

Using a similar approach as Saul, but slightly different purpose:

class TrueUniqueBooleanField(BooleanField):

    def __init__(self, unique_for=None, *args, **kwargs):
        self.unique_for = unique_for
        super(BooleanField, self).__init__(*args, **kwargs)

    def pre_save(self, model_instance, add):
        value = super(TrueUniqueBooleanField, self).pre_save(model_instance, add)

        objects = model_instance.__class__.objects

        if self.unique_for:
            objects = objects.filter(**{self.unique_for: getattr(model_instance, self.unique_for)})

        if value and objects.exclude(id=model_instance.id).filter(**{self.attname: True}):
            msg = 'Only one instance of {} can have its field {} set to True'.format(model_instance.__class__, self.attname)
            if self.unique_for:
                msg += ' for each different {}'.format(self.unique_for)
            raise ValidationError(msg)

        return value

This implementation will raise a ValidationError when attempting to save another record with a value of True.

Also, I have added the unique_for argument which can be set to any other field in the model, to check true-uniqueness only for records with the same value, such as:

class Phone(models.Model):
    user = models.ForeignKey(User)
    main = TrueUniqueBooleanField(unique_for='user', default=False)