Django unique_together not preventing duplicates

Question

I am clearly not understanding how to do this correctly, can someone set me straight. Here is the model:

class Team(models.Model):    teamID=models.CharField(max_length=255) #this will be generated on the iPad    name=models.CharField(max_length=255)    slug=models.SlugField(max_length=50)     teamNumber=models.CharField(max_length=30)    checkIn=models.DateTimeField(default=datetime.now())    totalScore=models.IntegerField(max_length=6)      class Meta:        unique_together = ("teamID", "name", "slug", "teamNumber", "totalScore") 

If I submit twice in a row it saves all of it. Yikes!!!

Answer 1

As aganders3 mentions the constraint is enforced at the database level; I assume though that you are using a database like SQLite that doesn't support this kind of constraint.

The reason that it all works as expected through the admin is that it is doing the uniqueness check itself (it doesn't rely strictly on the database to signal constraint violations).

You can switch to a database engine that supports this kind of uniqueness constraint (either MySQL or Postgres would work) or you could look at adding the check in using signals: http://djangosnippets.org/snippets/1628/