Temporarily disable auto_now / auto_now_add

Question

I have a model like this:

class FooBar(models.Model):
    createtime = models.DateTimeField(auto_now_add=True)
    lastupdatetime = models.DateTimeField(auto         


        

Answer 1

I used the suggestion made by the asker, and created some functions. Here is the use case:

turn_off_auto_now(FooBar, "lastupdatetime")
turn_off_auto_now_add(FooBar, "createtime")

new_entry.createtime = date
new_entry.lastupdatetime = date
new_entry.save()

Here's the implementation:

def turn_off_auto_now(ModelClass, field_name):
    def auto_now_off(field):
        field.auto_now = False
    do_to_model(ModelClass, field_name, auto_now_off)

def turn_off_auto_now_add(ModelClass, field_name):
    def auto_now_add_off(field):
        field.auto_now_add = False
    do_to_model(ModelClass, field_name, auto_now_add_off)

def do_to_model(ModelClass, field_name, func):
    field = ModelClass._meta.get_field_by_name(field_name)[0]
    func(field)

Similar functions can be created to turn them back on.