update other objects when saving an object:

[Tim]

Hi,

I've modeled a Book that has Chapters, with each Chapter having an ordering 'sequence'. 

So when someone decides the first chapter in the book should become the third, they can just change the sequence number.

That's fine, but when that happens, I want the other chapters to automatically change their sequence to reflect the change.

To accomplish this I thought I could add a custom 'save' method to my Chapter model, but I get the message:

'Manager isn't accessible via ChapterMembership instances'

My code seems straightforward enough:

class ChapterMembership(models.Model):

    chapter = models.ForeignKey(Chapter, blank=True, null=True)

    book = models.ForeignKey(Book, blank=True, null=True)

    sequence = models.PositiveIntegerField()

    def save(self):

        chapters = self.objects.filter(book=self.book) # get all instances for the related book

        sequences = [x.sequence for x in chapters] # a list of all the sequence numbers

        if self.sequence in sequences: #if we have a duplicate sequence take care of it

            for chapter in chapters: 

                if self.sequence == chapter.sequence:

                    chapter.sequence = chapter.sequence + 1

                    chapter.save() # makes this a recursive method

        super(ChapterMembership, self).save()

I suppose I'm missing something basic, but I haven't seen an example like this in my searches.

Can anyone see what I'm doing wrong?

thanks,

--Tim

[Brett Epps]

Hi Tim,

The problem is your use of the self keyword when trying to get at the ChapterMembership manager.  Instead of:

chapters = self.objects.filter…

Try:

chapters = ChapterMembership.objects.filter…

Hope that helps,

Brett

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[Tim]

Hi Brian,

That helps indeed! The code is working now; seems like I need to work on the logic, but now I'm getting somewhere.

thanks,

--Tim