We have a base model that sets a created and modified field:
class BaseModel(models.Model):
created = models.DateTimeField(_('created'), auto_now_add=True)
modified = models.DateTimeField(_('modified'), auto_now=True)
... other default properties
class Meta:
abstract = True
We use this class to extend our models:
class Event(BaseModel):
Is there a way to over ride the created date when creating new Events?
This is a stripped down version of our code. We are sending an array of event objects containing a created timestamp in our request payload. After the objects are added to the db, the created property is set to now and not the value from the payload.
I would like to still extend from the BaseModel as other areas of the code may not explicitly set a created value, in which case it should default to now.
events = []
for e in payload['events']:
event = Event(
created=datetime.datetime.fromisoformat(e['created'])
name='foo'
)
events.append(event)
Event.objects.bulk_create(events)
You can override the created field for your Event model with:
from django.utils.timezone import now
class Event(BaseModel):
created = models.DateTimeField(default=now)If you do not want this to show up for ModelForms and ModelAdmins by default, you can make use of editable=False [Django-doc]:
from django.utils.timezone import now
class Event(BaseModel):
created = models.DateTimeField(default=now, editable=False)