Question

I want to generate a random slug for my model, but without setting “blank=True” (as I want to enforce it later with validation.)

I was wondering if I could do something like this:

slug = models.SlugField(unique=True, default=some_method(), verbose_name='URL Slug')

Where some_method is a method which generates a random slug? I’ve tried the above code and it doesn’t work 🙁

What I’d like to do is generate a unique slug (unique_slugify?)

Answer 1

You could override the models save-method so that when a new entity is created, you generate the slug on the fly. Something like:

if not self.pk:
    self.slug = ''.join(random.sample(string.ascii_lowercase, 10))

You could do that, but it isn’t very good and better would be to let the slug be a deterministic slugified version of the objects name.