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Create a clone of a django model instance.

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django-clone

Create copies of a model instance with explicit control on how the instance should be duplicated (limiting fields or related objects) copied and unique field detection.

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Installation

Run

pip install django-clone

Usage

Inheriting from CloneModel or CloneMixin

Subclassing the CloneModel

from django.db import models
from django.utils.translation import gettext_lazy as _
from model_clone import CloneModel

class TestModel(CloneModel):
    title = models.CharField(max_length=200)
    tags =  models.ManyToManyField('Tags')

    _clone_m2m_fields = ['tags']


class Tags(models.Model):  #  To enable cloning tags directly use `CloneModel` as shown above.
    name = models.CharField(max_length=255)

    def __str__(self):
        return _(self.name)

Using the CloneMixin

from django.db import models
from django.utils.translation import gettext_lazy as _
from model_clone import CloneMixin

class TestModel(CloneMixin, models.Model):
    title = models.CharField(max_length=200)
    tags =  models.ManyToManyField('Tags')

    _clone_m2m_fields = ['tags']


class Tags(models.Model):  #  To enable cloning tags directly use `CloneMixin` as shown above.
    name = models.CharField(max_length=255)

    def __str__(self):
        return _(self.name)

Duplicating a model instance

In [1]: test_obj = TestModel.objects.create(title='New')

In [2]: test_obj.pk
Out[2]: 1

In [3]: test_obj.title
Out[3]: 'New'

In [4]: test_obj.tags.create(name='men')

In [4]: test_obj.tags.create(name='women')

In [5]: test_obj.tags.all()
Out[5]: <QuerySet [<Tag: men>, <Tag: women>]>

In [6]: test_obj_clone = test_obj.make_clone()

In [7]: test_obj_clone.pk
Out[7]: 2

In [8]: test_obj_clone.title
Out[8]: 'New copy 1'

In [9]: test_obj_clone.tags.all()
Out[9]: <QuerySet [<Tag: men>, <Tag: women>]>

Bulk cloning a model

In [1]: test_obj = TestModel.objects.create(title='New')

In [2]: test_obj.pk
Out[2]: 1

In [3]: test_obj.title
Out[3]: 'New'

In [4]: test_obj.tags.create(name='men')

In [4]: test_obj.tags.create(name='women')

In [5]: test_obj.tags.all()
Out[5]: <QuerySet [<Tag: men>, <Tag: women>]>

In [6]: test_obj_clones = test_obj.bulk_clone(1000)

In [7]: len(test_obj_clones)
Out[7]: 1000

In [8]: test_obj_clone = test_obj_clones[0]

In [9]: test_obj_clone.pk
Out[9]: 2

In [10]: test_obj_clone.title
Out[10]: 'New copy 1'

In [11]: test_obj_clone.tags.all()
Out[11]: <QuerySet [<Tag: men>, <Tag: women>]>

CloneMixin attributes

Explicit

Field Names Description
_clone_fields Restrict the list of fields to copy from the instance (By default: Copies all fields excluding auto-created/non editable model fields)
_clone_m2m_fields Restricted Many to many fields (i.e Test.tags)
_clone_m2o_or_o2m_fields Restricted Many to One/One to Many fields
_clone_o2o_fields Restricted One to One fields

Implicit

Field Names (include all except these fields.) Description
_clone_excluded_fields Excluded model fields.
_clone_excluded_m2m_fields Excluded many to many fields.
_clone_excluded_m2o_or_o2m_fields Excluded Many to One/One to Many fields.
_clone_excluded_o2o_fields Excluded one to one fields.

NOTE: :warning:

  • Ensure to either set _clone_excluded_* or _clone_*. Using both would raise errors.

Creating clones without subclassing CloneMixin.

In [1]: from model_clone.utils import create_copy_of_instance

In [2]: test_obj = TestModel.objects.create(title='New')

In [3]: test_obj.pk
Out[3]: 1

In [4]: test_obj.title
Out[4]: 'New'

In [5]: test_obj.tags.create(name='men')

In [6]: test_obj.tags.create(name='women')

In [7]: test_obj.tags.all()
Out[7]: <QuerySet [<Tag: men>, <Tag: women>]>

In [8]: test_obj_clone = create_copy_of_instance(test_obj, attrs={'title': 'Updated title'})

In [9]: test_obj_clone.pk
Out[9]: 2

In [10]: test_obj_clone.title
Out[10]: 'Updated title'

In [11]: test_obj_clone.tags.all()
Out[11]: <QuerySet []>

NOTE: :warning:

  • This method won't copy over related objects like Many to Many/One to Many relationships.
  • Ensure that required fields skipped from being cloned are passed in using the attrs dictionary.

Django Admin

Duplicating Models from the Django Admin view.

Change

from django.contrib import admin
from django.contrib.admin import ModelAdmin

@admin.register(TestModel)
class TestModelAdmin(ModelAdmin):
    pass

to

from model_clone import CloneModelAdmin

@admin.register(TestModel)
class TestModelAdmin(CloneModelAdmin):
    pass
List View

Screenshot

Change View

Screenshot

CloneModelAdmin class attributes

from model_clone import CloneModelAdmin

@admin.register(TestModel)
class TestModelAdmin(CloneModelAdmin):
    # Enables/Disables the Duplicate action in the List view (Defaults to True)
    include_duplicate_action = True
    # Enables/Disables the Duplicate action in the Change view (Defaults to True)
    include_duplicate_object_link = True

NOTE: :warning:

  • Ensure that model_clone is placed before django.contrib.admin
INSTALLED_APPS = [
    'model_clone',
    'django.contrib.admin',
    '...',
]

Found a Bug?

To file a bug or submit a patch, please head over to django-clone on github.

Contributors ✨

Thanks goes to these wonderful people:


Gerben Neven

🐛 ⚠️ 💻

Sebastian Kapunkt

💻 🐛 ⚠️

Andrés Portillo

🐛

WhiteSource Renovate

🚧

Yuekui

💻 🐛 ⚠️

This project follows the all-contributors specification. Contributions of any kind welcome!

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