Question

For example this chunk of code:

new_log = ActivityLog(user=self.user,
                      activity=activity)
new_log.save()

Can I chain it to be like new_log = ActivityLog(…).save() ?

I believe I tried the above, but it doesn’t work. Is there a way to make it a 1 liner?

Answer 1

Django provides a convenience method on the model manager for just this purpose 🙂

new_log = ActivityLog.objects.create(user=self.user, activity=activity)

The docs on create are here. It is billed as:

A convenience method for creating an object and saving it all in one step.