#36343: Uprading to Django 5.2 from Django 5.1.7 creates a new migration for a
self
referencing through model
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Reporter: Mark Chackerian | Type: Uncategorized
Status: new | Component: Uncategorized
Version: 5.2 | Severity: Normal
Keywords: | Triage Stage: Unreviewed
Has patch: 0 | Needs documentation: 0
Needs tests: 0 | Patch needs improvement: 0
Easy pickings: 0 | UI/UX: 0
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I have a model with a self-referential through model like
{{{
class Cad((models.Model):
id = models.UUIDField(primary_key=True, default=uuid.uuid4,
editable=False)
cads: models.ManyToManyField = models.ManyToManyField(
"self", symmetrical=False, through="CadChild",
through_fields=("parent", "child")
)
...
class CadChild(models.Model):
"""A through model for Cad parent/child many-to-many relationships."""
parent = models.ForeignKey(
Cad,
on_delete=models.CASCADE,
related_name="parent_cad_set",
)
child = models.ForeignKey(
Cad,
on_delete=models.CASCADE,
related_name="child_cad_set",
)
}}}
When I upgraded from 5.1.7 to 5.2 I needed to created to create a new
migration, which looked like:
{{{
# Generated by Django 5.2 on 2025-04-21 13:25
from django.db import migrations, models
class Migration(migrations.Migration):
dependencies = [
('projects',
'0012_documentpagetheme_documentpagethemeuserdefault'),
]
operations = [
migrations.AlterField(
model_name='cad',
name='cads',
field=models.ManyToManyField(through='projects.CadChild',
through_fields=('parent', 'child'), to='projects.cad'),
),
]
}}}
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This may be intended behavior but I can't find any reference to this
change in the release notes.
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