15. Transactions

This example describes Django version 0.96. For the current example, go here.

Django handles transactions in three different ways. The default is to commit each transaction upon a write, but you can decorate a function to get commit-on-success behavior. Alternatively, you can manage the transaction manually.

Model source code

from django.db import models

class Reporter(models.Model):
    first_name = models.CharField(maxlength=30)
    last_name = models.CharField(maxlength=30)
    email = models.EmailField()

    def __str__(self):
        return "%s %s" % (self.first_name, self.last_name)

Sample API usage

This sample code assumes the above model has been saved in a file mysite/models.py.

>>> from mysite.models import Reporter

>>> from django.db import connection, transaction