Saving model with raw=True

[Preston Timmons]

At one time it seems there was an intention to have the save method on
models accept a keyword argument named raw which would allowed the
model to be saved without pre-processing. This argument is available
in the save_base method but not available in the save method.

Am I right to conclude that I should call save_base directly when I
want to use this?

Thanks.

Preston

[Alex Gaynor]

What do you mena skipping the processing, right now what raw does is very internal and doesn't seem like behavior you'd ever want to chnage:
http://code.djangoproject.com/browser/django/trunk/django/db/models/base.py#L352

Alex

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[Preston Timmons]

Thanks, Alex,

I must misunderstand what it is for then. I got the idea from a post
where Russ Magee mentioned it as being a way to prevent auto_now
fields from being executed:

http://groups.google.com/group/django-users/browse_thread/thread/167ee7bddccb4354/069a59146423d013?lnk=gst&q=auto_now#069a59146423d013

I needed to create a test that depended upon a 'date modified' field
of a model. That field used auto_now and it did not seem possible to
force a date. I have since solved the problem by moving the logic into
a custom save method but afterwards came upon the above post and
wondered if I wasn't missing something simple.

Preston

On Mar 16, 5:59 pm, Alex Gaynor <alex.gay...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 6:55 PM, Preston Timmons

> <prestontimm...@gmail.com>wrote:

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> > At one time it seems there was an intention to have the save method on
> > models accept a keyword argument named raw which would allowed the
> > model to be saved without pre-processing. This argument is available
> > in the save_base method but not available in the save method.
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> > Am I right to conclude that I should call save_base directly when I
> > want to use this?
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> > Thanks.
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> > Preston
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> What do you mena skipping the processing, right now what raw does is very

> internal and doesn't seem like behavior you'd ever want to chnage:http://code.djangoproject.com/browser/django/trunk/django/db/models/b...