How to update DjangoItem in Scrapy

Question

I\'ve been working with Scrapy but run into a bit of a problem.

DjangoItem has a save method to persist items using the Django ORM. This is

Answer 1

for related models with foreignkeys

def update_model(destination, source, commit=True):
    pk = destination.pk

    source_fields = fields_for_model(source)
    for key in source_fields.keys():
        setattr(destination, key, getattr(source, key))

    setattr(destination, 'pk', pk)

    if commit:
        destination.save()

    return destination