Django Queryset Signals

Who made it?

This library was originally developed by Martin P. Hellwig at Bitbucket. If you like this work, Martin notifies that you can repay him by donating via Paypal or Patreon.

This fork contains breaking-changes, and is not compatible with the upstream project. Additionally the rest of this README file should be considered out-of-date.

What is it?

A library that will send signals on queryset data manipulation methods.

What problem does it solve?

Django has a built-in signal system, and sends signals on for instance model creations, updates and deletions. This signal system does however not extend to database method, such as bulk_create or delete.

Below is a table, showing which signals are fired when:

	Django signal		Django Queryset signals
	save	delete	create	bulk_create	delete	get_or_create	update_or_create	update
save	X
create	X		X
bulk_create				X
delete		X			X
qs_delete					X
qs_delete_exist		X			X
get_or_create	X					X
get_or_create_exist						X
update_or_create	X						X
update								X

The _exists entries are when data matching already exists, and are only included when it affects behavior.

How do I install it?

pip install django-queryset-signals

And then add 'django_queryset_signals' to your installed apps.

How do I use it?

From the namespace django_query_signals you can import the below signals which you can connect to via the usual way.

• pre_bulk_create
• post_bulk_create,
• pre_delete
• post_delete
• pre_get_or_create
• post_get_or_create
• pre_update_or_create
• post_update_or_create
• pre_update
• post_update

For example:

>>> @receiver(post_bulk_create)
>>> def callback(signal, sender, args):
>>>       pass

The argument 'signal' is the signal that is connected, 'sender' is the underlying model class and 'args' is a dictionary which the method in queryset is called with, this is supplemented with 'self' which contains the queryset instance and if the connecting signal is a 'post' type the key 'return' is also added which contains the value the method has returned.

If you connect to the 'pre' type signal, changing the 'args' and 'self' will also change the actual execution of the method.

Caveat

This library relies on monkey patching django.db.models.query.QuerySet, thus if your instance also monkey patches the same thing or you use a custom QuerySet in your Manager, then there is a good chance that this library will not work at all for you, however most likely you can work around this issue by examining the signals.py file in this library.

What license is this?

BSD-2-Clause