Cleaned up the internal implementation of m2m fields by removing
related.py _get_fk_val(). The _get_fk_val() was doing the wrong thing
if asked for the foreign key value on foreign key to parent model's
primary key when child model had different primary key field.
It has been possible to use models of wrong type in related field
lookups. For example pigs__in=[a_duck] has worked. Changes to
ForeignObject broke that.
It might be a good idea to restrict the model types usable in lookups.
This should be done intentionally, not accidentally and without any
consideration for deprecation path.
In the intervening years, RelatedField has become less of a hack (though it still is one). Anyone who wants to can re-instate the comment, but please add more details.
This is backward incompatible for custom form field/widgets that rely
on the hard-coded 'Hold down "Control", or "Command" on a Mac, to select
more than one.' sentence.
Application that use standard model form fields and widgets aren't
affected but need to start handling these help texts by themselves
before Django 1.8.
For more details, see the related release notes and deprecation timeline
sections added with this commit.
Before there was need to have both .relabel_aliases() and .clone() for
many structs. Now there is only relabeled_clone() for those structs
where alias is the only mutable attribute.
Querying the reverse side of nullable to_field relation, where both
sides can contain null values resulted in incorrect results. The reason
was not detecting '' as NULL.
Refs #17541
This controls whether or not a database level cosntraint is created. This is useful in a few specialized circumstances, but in general should not be used!
When &'ing or |'ing querysets, wrong values could be cached, and crashes
could happen.
Thanks Marc Tamlyn for figuring out the problem and writing the patch.
The dupe avoidance logic was removed as it doesn't seem to do anything,
it is complicated, and it has nearly zero documentation.
The removal of dupe_avoidance allowed for refactoring of both the
implementation and signature of Query.join(). This refactoring cascades
again to some other parts. The most significant of them is the changes
in qs.combine(), and compiler.select_related_descent().
There was a potential data-loss issue involved -- when clearing
instance's m2m assignments it was possible some other instance's
m2m data was deleted instead.
This commit also improved None handling for to_field cases.