Post slugs have been updated

What’s new

Nothing

What changed

Post slugs changed

Slugs are based off the title, which means if the title is “This post will talk about Banana Split”, the post slug will be “this-post-will-talk-about-banana-split”.

There’s a big problem with that, if two titles are the same (which I want it to be possible, for different reasons but also because I don’t have much more ideas on how to name the Wednesday Posts), the two slugs will bug because they’ll be the same, and slugs HAVE to be different (for a few reasons, first: they kinda act like an ID (it’s the only other thing that can be used as an ID with Django), second: if two posts have the same slug… how would you go to one or the other? well you couldn’t).

Good news!

the old code for auto generated slugs was:

Python
def save(self, *args, **kwargs):
        if not self.slug:
            self.slug = slugify(self.title)
        return super().save(*args, **kwargs)

Python
1 2 3 4	`def save(self, args, kwargs): if not self.slug: self.slug = slugify(self.title) return super().save(args, **kwargs)`

Basically if the slug doesn’t exist create one based on the title.

The code is now:

Python
def save(self, *args, **kwargs):
        max_length = Post._meta.get_field('slug').max_length
        self.slug = orig = slugify(self.title)[:max_length]
        for x in itertools.count(2):
            if self.pk:
                if Post.objects.filter(Q(slug=self.slug),
                                       Q(author=self.author),
                                       Q(id=self.pk),
                                       ).exists():
                    break
            if not Post.objects.filter(slug=self.slug).exists():
                break

            # Truncate & Minus 1 for the hyphen.
            self.slug = "%s-%d" % (orig[:max_length - len(str(x)) - 1], x)
        return super().save(*args, **kwargs)

Python
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16	`def save(self, args, kwargs): max_length = Post._meta.get_field('slug').max_length self.slug = orig = slugify(self.title)[:max_length] for x in itertools.count(2): if self.pk: if Post.objects.filter(Q(slug=self.slug), Q(author=self.author), Q(id=self.pk), ).exists(): break if not Post.objects.filter(slug=self.slug).exists(): break # Truncate & Minus 1 for the hyphen. self.slug = "%s-%d" % (orig[:max_length - len(str(x)) - 1], x) return super().save(args, **kwargs)`

Meaning even more basically:
If the post doesn’t have a slug, create one, but if the slug you’re trying to exist already exists, add a number after it, starting with 2 (so if the slug “this-post-will-talk-about-banana-split” exists, create “this-post-will-talk-about-banana-split-2”), and voilà, we can have two times the same title but the auto slug will be different

Post slugs have been updated
- What’s new
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