Question

In my views.py I have something like this:

 a = Profile.objects.get(user=request.user.id)
 a.avatar = avatar.id
 a.save()

From what I know when I do a save() if there is already a record with that specific user id it should just update the existing record with the avatar.id.

I’m not sure why but when I run the above code the existing record gets deleted. Am I doing this right?

Answer 1

Found out that the answer is NO.

I used manage.py shell and ran the above code and it didn’t not delete the record. But I found out that another code above it was doing the damage.

I had something like this:

avatar = Avatar.objects.create(user = a_user)
avatar.delete()

The Profile model has a foreign key relationship with the Avatar. So when I did avatar.delete() when I thought it only deleted the record for the Avatar model it also deleted related Profile record.