From 2a1710596a48ce0dbd2b4aa5f510f0c79bd57b99 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Philip Sargent <philip.sargent@klebos.com>
Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2021 00:11:08 +0100
Subject: moving save_carefully()

---
 core/utils.py | 42 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 42 insertions(+)

(limited to 'core/utils.py')

diff --git a/core/utils.py b/core/utils.py
index 4dcee68..deca124 100644
--- a/core/utils.py
+++ b/core/utils.py
@@ -60,6 +60,48 @@ def chaosmonkey(n):
     # print("CHAOS strikes !", file=sys.stderr)
     return True
 
+
+def save_carefully(objectType, lookupAttribs={}, nonLookupAttribs={}):
+    """Looks up instance using lookupAttribs and carries out the following:
+            -if instance does not exist in DB: add instance to DB, return (new instance, True)
+            -if instance exists in DB and was modified using Troggle: do nothing, return (existing instance, False)
+            -if instance exists in DB and was not modified using Troggle: overwrite instance, return (instance, False)
+            
+        The checking is accomplished using Django's get_or_create and the new_since_parsing boolean field
+        defined in core.models.TroggleModel.
+    
+    """
+    try:
+        instance, created = objectType.objects.get_or_create(defaults=nonLookupAttribs, **lookupAttribs)
+    except:
+        print(" !! - SAVE CAREFULLY   ===================", objectType)
+        print(" !! - -- objects.get_or_create()")
+        print(" !! - lookupAttribs:{}\n !! - nonLookupAttribs:{}".format(lookupAttribs,nonLookupAttribs))
+        raise
+    if not created and not instance.new_since_parsing:
+        for k, v in list(nonLookupAttribs.items()): #overwrite the existing attributes from the logbook text (except date and title)
+            setattr(instance, k, v)
+        try:
+            instance.save()
+        except:
+            print(" !! - SAVE CAREFULLY   ===================", objectType)
+            print(" !! - -- instance.save()")
+            print(" !! - lookupAttribs:{}\n !! - nonLookupAttribs:{}".format(lookupAttribs,nonLookupAttribs))
+            raise
+    try:
+        msg = str(instance)
+    except:
+        msg = "FAULT getting __str__ for instance with lookupattribs: {}:".format(lookupAttribs)
+    if created:
+        logging.info(str(instance) + ' was just added to the database for the first time. \n')
+    
+    if not created and instance.new_since_parsing:
+        logging.info(str(instance) + " has been modified using Troggle, so the current script left it as is. \n")
+
+    if not created and not instance.new_since_parsing:
+        logging.info(str(instance) + " existed in the database unchanged since last parse. It was overwritten by the current script. \n")
+    return (instance, created)
+ 
 # def get_related_by_wikilinks(wiki_text):
     # found=re.findall(settings.QM_PATTERN,wiki_text)
     # res=[]
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