A Django field that enables convenient soft-deletion. For Python 2.7/3.3+ and Django 1.8+
Simple: pip install django-livefield.
>>> from django.db import models
>>> from livefield import LiveField, LiveManager
>>>
>>>
>>> class Person(models.Model):
... name = models.CharField()
... live = LiveField()
...
... objects = LiveManager()
... all_objects = LiveManager(include_soft_deleted=True)
...
... class Meta:
... unique_together = ('name', 'live')
...
... def delete(self, using=None):
... self.live = False
... self.save(using=using)
...
>>> john = Person.objects.create(name='John Cleese')
>>> doppelganger = Person(name='John Cleese')
>>> doppelganger.save() # Raises an IntegrityError
>>> john.delete()
>>> doppelganger.save() # Succeeds!MIT. See LICENSE.txt for details.
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