Autoincrement-achtig veld voor objecten met dezelfde externe sleutel (Django 1.8, MySQL 5.5)

Uiteindelijk heb ik het probleem opgelost door een onbewerkte SQL-query te construeren en uit te voeren om de auto-increment en invoeging in een enkele databasetransactie uit te voeren. Ik heb veel tijd besteed aan het doorzoeken van de Django-broncode om te begrijpen hoe hun standaardmodelopslagmethode werkt, zodat ik dit zo robuust mogelijk kon doen. Ik verwacht echter volledig dat dit moet worden aangepast voor niet-MySQL-backends.

Eerst heb ik een abstracte klasse gemaakt waarvan ObjectLog nu zal worden afgeleid, die deze nieuwe opslagmethode bevat:

class AutoIncrementModel(models.Model):
    """
    An abstract class used as a base for classes which need the
    autoincrementing save method described below.
    """
    class Meta:
        abstract = True

    def save(self, auto_field, auto_fk, *args, **kwargs):
        """
        Arguments:
            auto_field: name of field which acts as an autoincrement field.
            auto_fk:    name of ForeignKey to which the auto_field is relative.
        """

        # Do normal save if this is not an insert (i.e., the instance has a
        # primary key already).
        meta = self.__class__._meta
        pk_set = self._get_pk_val(meta) is not None
        if pk_set:
            super(ObjectLog, self).save(*args, **kwargs)
            return

        # Otherwise, we'll generate some raw SQL to do the
        # insert and auto-increment.

        # Get model fields, except for primary key field.
        fields = meta.local_concrete_fields
        if not pk_set:
            fields = [f for f in fields if not
                isinstance(f, models.fields.AutoField)]

        # Setup for generating base SQL query for doing an INSERT.
        query = models.sql.InsertQuery(self.__class__._base_manager.model)
        query.insert_values(fields, objs=[self])
        compiler = query.get_compiler(using=self.__class__._base_manager.db)
        compiler.return_id = meta.has_auto_field and not pk_set

        fk_name = meta.get_field(auto_fk).column
        with compiler.connection.cursor() as cursor:
            # Get base SQL query as string.
            for sql, params in compiler.as_sql():
                # compiler.as_sql() looks like:
                # INSERT INTO `table_objectlog` VALUES (%s,...,%s)
                # We modify this to do:
                # INSERT INTO `table_objectlog` SELECT %s,...,%s FROM
                # `table_objectlog` WHERE `object_id`=id
                # NOTE: it's unlikely that the following will generate
                # a functional database query for non-MySQL backends.

                # Replace VALUES (%s, %s, ..., %s) with
                # SELECT %s, %s, ..., %s
                sql = re.sub(r"VALUES \((.*)\)", r"SELECT \1", sql)

                # Add table to SELECT from and ForeignKey id corresponding to
                # our autoincrement field.
                sql += " FROM `{tbl_name}` WHERE `{fk_name}`={fk_id}".format(
                    tbl_name=meta.db_table,
                    fk_name=fk_name,
                    fk_id=getattr(self, fk_name)
                    )

                # Get index corresponding to auto_field.
                af_idx = [f.name for f in fields].index(auto_field)
                # Put this directly in the SQL. If we use parameter
                # substitution with cursor.execute, it gets quoted
                # as a literal, which causes the SQL command to fail.
                # We shouldn't have issues with SQL injection because
                # auto_field should never be a user-defined parameter.
                del params[af_idx]
                sql = re.sub(r"((%s, ){{{0}}})%s".format(af_idx),
                r"\1IFNULL(MAX({af}),0)+1", sql, 1).format(af=auto_field)

                # IFNULL(MAX({af}),0)+1 is the autoincrement SQL command,
                # {af} is substituted as the column name.

                # Execute SQL command.
                cursor.execute(sql, params)

            # Get primary key from database and set it in memory.
            if compiler.connection.features.can_return_id_from_insert:
                id = compiler.connection.ops.fetch_returned_insert_id(cursor)
            else:
                id = compiler.connection.ops.last_insert_id(cursor,
                    meta.db_table, meta.pk.column)
            self._set_pk_val(id)

            # Refresh object in memory in order to get auto_field value.
            self.refresh_from_db()

Dan gebruikt het ObjectLog-model dit als volgt:

class ObjectLog(AutoIncrementModel):
    class Meta:
        ordering = ['-created','-N']
        unique_together = ("object","N")
    object = models.ForeignKey(Object, null=False)                                                                                                                                                              
    created = models.DateTimeField(auto_now_add=True)
    issuer = models.ForeignKey(User)
    N = models.IntegerField(null=False)

    def save(self, *args, **kwargs):
        # Set up to call save method of the base class (AutoIncrementModel)
        kwargs.update({'auto_field': 'N', 'auto_fk': 'event'})
        super(EventLog, self).save(*args, **kwargs)

Hierdoor kunnen aanroepen naar ObjectLog.save() nog steeds werken zoals verwacht.