Changes between Version 33 and Version 34 of Signals


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Timestamp:
Oct 17, 2008, 7:08:48 AM (16 years ago)
Author:
Thomas Güttler
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Don't repeat yourself: The signal reference contains the list of signals.

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  • Signals

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    8282Django defines several sets of signals which are used internally, and which you can listen for in order to run your own custom code at specific moments.
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    84 `django.db.models.signals` defines the following signals:
    85 
    86 '''class_prepared'''
    87 
    88 This is sent whenever a model class has been "prepared"; in other words, once most of the metaprogramming which makes models work has been completed. Django uses this signal internally to know when to generate and add the automatic `AddManipulator` and `ChangeManipulator` to a model class (see the DevModelCreation page for details).
    89 
    90 Arguments that are sent with this signal:
    91 
    92  * `sender` -- the model class which was just prepared.
    93 
    94 '''pre_init'''
    95 
    96 Whenever you create a new instance of a Django model (for example, in [http://www.djangoproject.com/documentation/tutorial1/ the first part of the Django tutorial] when you do `p = Poll(question="What's up?", pub_date=datetime.now())`) , this signal is sent at the beginning of the execution of the model's `__init__` method. '''Note:''' if you override `__init__` on your model, you must call the parent class' `__init__` method for this signal to be sent, and it will be sent at the beginning of the parent class' `__init__` method.
    97 
    98 Arguments sent with this signal:
    99 
    100  * `sender` -- the model class you're creating an instance of.
    101  * `args` -- a list of positional arguments passed to the model's `__init__` method.
    102  * `kwargs` -- a dictionary of keyword arguments passed to the model's `__init__` method. For example, in the tutorial when you do `p = Poll(question="What's up?", pub_date=datetime.now())`, the `kwargs` argument to the `pre_init` signal would be the dictionary `{'question': "What's up?", 'pub_date': datetime.now()}`.
    103 
    104 '''post_init'''
    105 
    106 Like `pre_init`, but this one is sent when the model's `__init__` method is done executing. '''Note:''' if you override `__init__` on your model, you must call the parent class' `__init__` method for this signal to be sent, and it will be sent at the end of the parent class' `__init__` method.
    107 
    108 Arguments sent with this signal:
    109 
    110  * `sender` -- the model class you've just created an instance of.
    111  * `instance` -- the instance of the model you just created. For example, in the tutorial when you do `p = Poll(question="What's up?", pub_date=datetime.now())`, the `instance` argument to the `post_init` signal would be the `Poll` object you just created.
    112 
    113 '''pre_save'''
    114 
    115 This is sent at the beginning of a model's `save` method. '''Note:''' if you override `save` on your model, you must call the parent class' `save` method for this signal to be sent, and it will be sent at the beginning of the parent class' `save` method.
    116 
    117 Arguments sent with this signal:
    118 
    119  * `sender` -- the model class of the object being saved.
    120  * `instance` -- the actual object being saved.
    121  * `raw` -- raw save, save the object exactly as presented.
    122 
    123 '''post_save'''
    124 
    125 This is sent at the end of a model's `save` method. '''Note:''' if you override `save` on your model, you must call the parent class' `save` method for this signal to be sent, and it will be sent at the end of the parent class' `save` method.
    126 
    127 Arguments sent with this signal:
    128 
    129  * `sender` -- the model class of the object which was just saved.
    130  * `instance` -- the actual object which was just saved.
    131  * `created` -- a boolean. True if a new record was create.
    132  * `raw` -- raw save, save the object exactly as presented.
    133 
    134 '''pre_delete'''
    135 
    136 This is sent at the beginning of a model's `delete` method. '''Note:''' if you override `delete` on your model, you must call the parent class' `delete` method for this signal to be sent, and it will be sent at the beginning of the parent class' `delete` method.
    137 
    138 
    139 Arguments sent with this signal:
    140 
    141  * `sender` -- the model class of the object which is about to be deleted.
    142  * `instance` -- the actual object which is about to be deleted.
    143 
    144 '''post_delete'''
    145 
    146 This is sent at the end of a model's `delete` method. '''Note:''' if you override `delete` on your model, you must call the parent class' `delete` method for this signal to be sent, and it will be sent at the beginning of the parent class' `delete` method.
    147 
    148 
    149 Arguments sent with this signal:
    150 
    151  * `sender` -- the model class of the object which was just deleted.
    152  * `instance` -- the actual object which was just deleted (the object will no longer be in the database, but will stick around in memory for a little while after that).
    153 
    154 '''post_syncdb''
    155 
    156 Sent by `manage.py syncdb` after it installs an application.
    157 
    158 Arguments sent with this signal:
    159 
    160  * `sender` -- the `models` module of the application which was just installed.
    161  * `app` -- same as `sender`.
    162  * `created_models` -- a list of the model classes which `manage.py` has created so far, regardless of app.
    163  * `verbosity` -- indicates how much information `manage.py` is printing on screen. There are three possible values: 0 means no information, 1 means some information and 2 means all possible information. Functions which listen for this signal should adjust what they output to the screen based on the value of this argument.
    164  * `interactive` -- whether `manage.py` is running in "interactive" mode; this is a boolean and so is either `True` or `False`. If `interactive` is `True`, it's safe to prompt the user to input things on the command line (for example, the auth app only prompts to create a superuser when `interactive` is `True`); if `interactive` is `False`, functions which listen for this signal should not try to prompt for anything.
    165 
    166 ----
    167 
    168 `django.core.signals` defines the following signals:
    169 
    170 '''request_started'''
    171 
    172 This signal is sent whenever Django begins processing an incoming HTTP request.
    173 
    174 This signal doesn't provide any arguments.
    175 
    176 '''request_finished'''
    177 
    178 This signal is sent whenever Django finishes processing an incoming HTTP request.
    179 
    180 This signal doesn't provide any arguments.
    181 
    182 '''got_request_exception'''
    183 
    184 This signal is sent whenever Django encounters an exception while processing an incoming HTTP request.
    185 
    186 This signal doesn't provide any arguments.
    187 
    188 ----
    189 
    190 `django.test.signals` defines the following signals:
    191 
    192 '''template_rendered'''
    193 
    194 This signal is sent by Django's testing framework whenever the test system renders a template; it's used by the test system to verify that the template rendered as expected. This signal is not emitted during normal operation of a Django server -- it is only available during testing.
    195 
    196 Arguments sent with this signal:
    197 
    198  * `sender` -- the `Template` object which was rendered.
    199  * `template` -- same as `sender`.
    200  * `context` -- the `Context` with which the template was rendered.
     84[http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/signals/ See built-in signal reference]
    20185
    20286== Refactoring differences ==
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