Hi
In models.post, there's the following:
#must add revision before saving the answer
self.add_revision(
author = edited_by,
revised_at = edited_at,
text = text,
comment = comment,
by_email = by_email
)
How come the revision has to be saved before the answer?
Thanks
Not sure what your intention is. The safest approach is to use function user.post_answer(). There are also post_question() and post_comment() - those will take care of all the underlying records and will test the permissions.
If you want to follow the underlying mechanics - basically any time a foreign key relation to another object - that one has to be created first. In this case - answer object is created first, then we create the revision, because revision requires the foreign key to the answer post.
I might not be reading the code right. Isn't the revision created before the answer here? self.add_revision(..) is called before self.parse_save(..), which saves the answer object. It only doesn't crash here because the post object itself would have already been created (because it's an edit function). My point is mostly that the comment "must add revision before saving the answer" might perhaps be misleading?
That's probably in the edit function - in that case we already have the post id to use for the foreign key. In the create answer function we do this in the opposite order, see PostManager.create_new.
If you use functions added to the user object, you can bypass all those details (and there are more, actually).
Sure. Thanks for the pointers. So does that mean that comment in the edit function doesn't actually hold?
No it all works, just in the edit function we have the post, so we can safely create a revision. When we make a new post - we first make the post and then add the revision. See functions available in the askbot/models/__init__.py, added via User.add_to_class - they start at about 75% down the file.
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