view weblinks/signals.py @ 917:0365fdbb4d78

Fix app conflict with messages. Django's messages app label conflicts with our messages app. We can't easily rename our label as that will make us rename database tables. Since our app came first we'll just customize Django messages label. For Django 1.7.7 upgrade.
author Brian Neal <bgneal@gmail.com>
date Mon, 06 Apr 2015 20:02:25 -0500
parents ee87ea74d46b
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"""Signals for the weblinks application.
We use signals to compute the denormalized category counts whenever a weblink
is saved."""
from django.db.models.signals import post_save
from django.db.models.signals import post_delete

from weblinks.models import Category, Link


def on_link_save(sender, **kwargs):
    """This function updates the count field for all categories.
    It is called whenever a link is saved via a signal.
    """
    if kwargs['created']:
        # we only have to update the parent category
        link = kwargs['instance']
        cat = link.category
        cat.count = Link.public_objects.filter(category=cat).count()
        cat.save()
    else:
        # update all categories just to be safe (an existing link could
        # have been moved from one category to another
        cats = Category.objects.all()
        for cat in cats:
            cat.count = Link.public_objects.filter(category=cat).count()
            cat.save()


def on_link_delete(sender, **kwargs):
    """This function updates the count field for the link's parent
    category. It is called when a link is deleted via a signal.
    """
    # update the parent category
    link = kwargs['instance']
    cat = link.category
    cat.count = Link.public_objects.filter(category=cat).count()
    cat.save()


post_save.connect(on_link_save, sender=Link, dispatch_uid='weblinks.signals')
post_delete.connect(on_link_delete, sender=Link, dispatch_uid='weblinks.signals')