Update a Model Field when DetailView encounter. [Django]

Question

I have a DetailView something like in views.py:

views.py

class CustomView(DetailView):
    context_object_name = \'content\'
          


        

Answer 1

You can use self.object and update it this way:

self.object.clicks = self.object.clicks + 1
self.object.save()

But as Daniel said in comment, using this code you can faced race condition. So it would be better to use F expressions like this:

from django.db.models import F

def get_context_data(self, **kwargs):
    data = super(CustomView, self).get_context_data(**kwargs)
    self.object.clicks = F('clicks') + 1
    self.object.save()
    <...snipped...>
    return data

Answer 2

neverwalkaloner is very close, but the object needs to be refreshed from the database after it's saved.

from django.db.models import F

def get_context_data(self, **kwargs):
    context = super(CustomView, self).get_context_data(**kwargs)
    self.object.clicks = F('clicks') + 1
    self.object.save()
    self.object.refresh_from_db()
    <...snipped...>
    return context

Now the value of the clicks will be displayed instead of the __repr__ of the F expression.