Django model object with foreign key creation

Question

Hi Suppose I have a simple model class like this:

class TestModel(models.Model):     testkey = models.ForeignKey(TestModel2)     ... 

When I am creating a TestModel object I have to pass to it an instance of the TestModel2 object to create it:

testkey =TestModel2.objects.get(id=...) TestModel.objects.create(testkey=testkey) 

This results in 2 queries to database I suppose, and I have a list of Foreign key IDs that I need to create objects with.

Is it possible to create objects with foreign keys without initially retrieving the foreign key objects?

Answer 1

What you’re after is:

TestModel.objects.create(testkey_id=1)