A list of all the signals that Django sends. All built-in signals are sent
using the send()
method.
See also
See the documentation on the signal dispatcher for information regarding how to register for and receive signals.
The authentication framework sends signals when a user is logged in / out.
The django.db.models.signals
module defines a set of signals sent by the
model system.
Warning
Many of these signals are sent by various model methods like
__init__()
or save()
that you can
override in your own code.
If you override these methods on your model, you must call the parent class’ methods for this signals to be sent.
Note also that Django stores signal handlers as weak references by default,
so if your handler is a local function, it may be garbage collected. To
prevent this, pass weak=False
when you call the signal’s connect()
.
Note
Model signals sender
model can be lazily referenced when connecting a
receiver by specifying its full application label. For example, an
Answer
model defined in the polls
application could be referenced
as 'polls.Answer'
. This sort of reference can be quite handy when
dealing with circular import dependencies and swappable models.
pre_init
¶django.db.models.signals.
pre_init
¶Whenever you instantiate a Django model, this signal is sent at the beginning
of the model’s __init__()
method.
Arguments sent with this signal:
sender
args
__init__()
:kwargs
__init__()
:For example, the tutorial has this line:
p = Poll(question="What's up?", pub_date=datetime.now())
The arguments sent to a pre_init
handler would be:
Argument | Value |
---|---|
sender |
Poll (the class itself) |
args |
[] (an empty list because there were no positional
arguments passed to __init__() .) |
kwargs |
{'question': "What's up?", 'pub_date': datetime.now()} |
post_init
¶django.db.models.signals.
post_init
¶Like pre_init, but this one is sent when the __init__()
method finishes.
Arguments sent with this signal:
sender
instance
pre_save
¶django.db.models.signals.
pre_save
¶This is sent at the beginning of a model’s save()
method.
Arguments sent with this signal:
sender
instance
raw
True
if the model is saved exactly as presented
(i.e. when loading a fixture). One should not query/modify other
records in the database as the database might not be in a
consistent state yet.using
update_fields
Model.save()
, or None
if update_fields
wasn’t passed to save()
.post_save
¶django.db.models.signals.
post_save
¶Like pre_save
, but sent at the end of the
save()
method.
Arguments sent with this signal:
sender
instance
created
True
if a new record was created.raw
True
if the model is saved exactly as presented
(i.e. when loading a fixture). One should not query/modify other
records in the database as the database might not be in a
consistent state yet.using
update_fields
Model.save()
, or None
if update_fields
wasn’t passed to save()
.pre_delete
¶django.db.models.signals.
pre_delete
¶Sent at the beginning of a model’s delete()
method and a queryset’s delete()
method.
Arguments sent with this signal:
sender
instance
using
post_delete
¶django.db.models.signals.
post_delete
¶Like pre_delete
, but sent at the end of a model’s
delete()
method and a queryset’s
delete()
method.
Arguments sent with this signal:
sender
instance
The actual instance being deleted.
Note that the object will no longer be in the database, so be very careful what you do with this instance.
using
m2m_changed
¶django.db.models.signals.
m2m_changed
¶Sent when a ManyToManyField
is changed on a model
instance. Strictly speaking, this is not a model signal since it is sent by the
ManyToManyField
, but since it complements the
pre_save
/post_save
and pre_delete
/post_delete
when it comes to tracking changes to models, it is included here.
Arguments sent with this signal:
sender
ManyToManyField
. This class is automatically
created when a many-to-many field is defined; you can access it using the
through
attribute on the many-to-many field.instance
sender
, or of the class the
ManyToManyField
is related to.action
A string indicating the type of update that is done on the relation. This can be one of the following:
"pre_add"
"post_add"
"pre_remove"
"post_remove"
"pre_clear"
"post_clear"
reverse
model
pk_set
For the pre_add
, post_add
, pre_remove
and post_remove
actions, this is a set of primary key values that have been added to
or removed from the relation.
For the pre_clear
and post_clear
actions, this is None
.
using
For example, if a Pizza
can have multiple Topping
objects, modeled
like this:
class Topping(models.Model):
# ...
pass
class Pizza(models.Model):
# ...
toppings = models.ManyToManyField(Topping)
If we connected a handler like this:
from django.db.models.signals import m2m_changed
def toppings_changed(sender, **kwargs):
# Do something
pass
m2m_changed.connect(toppings_changed, sender=Pizza.toppings.through)
and then did something like this:
>>> p = Pizza.objects.create(...)
>>> t = Topping.objects.create(...)
>>> p.toppings.add(t)
the arguments sent to a m2m_changed
handler (toppings_changed
in
the example above) would be:
Argument | Value |
---|---|
sender |
Pizza.toppings.through (the intermediate m2m class) |
instance |
p (the Pizza instance being modified) |
action |
"pre_add" (followed by a separate signal with "post_add" ) |
reverse |
False (Pizza contains the
ManyToManyField , so this call
modifies the forward relation) |
model |
Topping (the class of the objects added to the
Pizza ) |
pk_set |
{t.id} (since only Topping t was added to the relation) |
using |
"default" (since the default router sends writes here) |
And if we would then do something like this:
>>> t.pizza_set.remove(p)
the arguments sent to a m2m_changed
handler would be:
Argument | Value |
---|---|
sender |
Pizza.toppings.through (the intermediate m2m class) |
instance |
t (the Topping instance being modified) |
action |
"pre_remove" (followed by a separate signal with "post_remove" ) |
reverse |
True (Pizza contains the
ManyToManyField , so this call
modifies the reverse relation) |
model |
Pizza (the class of the objects removed from the
Topping ) |
pk_set |
{p.id} (since only Pizza p was removed from the
relation) |
using |
"default" (since the default router sends writes here) |
class_prepared
¶django.db.models.signals.
class_prepared
¶Sent whenever a model class has been “prepared” – that is, once model has been defined and registered with Django’s model system. Django uses this signal internally; it’s not generally used in third-party applications.
Since this signal is sent during the app registry population process, and
AppConfig.ready()
runs after the app
registry is fully populated, receivers cannot be connected in that method.
One possibility is to connect them AppConfig.__init__()
instead, taking
care not to import models or trigger calls to the app registry.
Arguments that are sent with this signal:
sender
Signals sent by django-admin.
pre_migrate
¶django.db.models.signals.
pre_migrate
¶Sent by the migrate
command before it starts to install an
application. It’s not emitted for applications that lack a models
module.
Arguments sent with this signal:
sender
AppConfig
instance for the application about to
be migrated/synced.app_config
sender
.verbosity
Indicates how much information manage.py is printing on screen. See
the --verbosity
flag for details.
Functions which listen for pre_migrate
should adjust what they
output to the screen based on the value of this argument.
interactive
If interactive
is True
, it’s safe to prompt the user to input
things on the command line. If interactive
is False
, functions
which listen for this signal should not try to prompt for anything.
For example, the django.contrib.auth
app only prompts to create a
superuser when interactive
is True
.
using
plan
True
) or applied (False
).apps
Apps
containing the state of the
project before the migration run. It should be used instead of the global
apps
registry to retrieve the models you
want to perform operations on.post_migrate
¶django.db.models.signals.
post_migrate
¶Sent at the end of the migrate
(even if no migrations are run) and
flush
commands. It’s not emitted for applications that lack a
models
module.
Handlers of this signal must not perform database schema alterations as doing
so may cause the flush
command to fail if it runs during the
migrate
command.
Arguments sent with this signal:
sender
AppConfig
instance for the application that was
just installed.app_config
sender
.verbosity
Indicates how much information manage.py is printing on screen. See
the --verbosity
flag for details.
Functions which listen for post_migrate
should adjust what they
output to the screen based on the value of this argument.
interactive
If interactive
is True
, it’s safe to prompt the user to input
things on the command line. If interactive
is False
, functions
which listen for this signal should not try to prompt for anything.
For example, the django.contrib.auth
app only prompts to create a
superuser when interactive
is True
.
using
default
database.plan
True
) or applied (False
).apps
Apps
containing the state of the
project after the migration run. It should be used instead of the global
apps
registry to retrieve the models you
want to perform operations on.For example, you could register a callback in an
AppConfig
like this:
from django.apps import AppConfig
from django.db.models.signals import post_migrate
def my_callback(sender, **kwargs):
# Your specific logic here
pass
class MyAppConfig(AppConfig):
...
def ready(self):
post_migrate.connect(my_callback, sender=self)
Note
If you provide an AppConfig
instance as the sender
argument, please ensure that the signal is registered in
ready()
. AppConfig
s are recreated for
tests that run with a modified set of INSTALLED_APPS
(such as
when settings are overridden) and such signals should be connected for each
new AppConfig
instance.
Signals sent by the core framework when processing a request.
request_started
¶django.core.signals.
request_started
¶Sent when Django begins processing an HTTP request.
Arguments sent with this signal:
sender
django.core.handlers.wsgi.WsgiHandler
– that
handled the request.environ
environ
dictionary provided to the request.request_finished
¶django.core.signals.
request_finished
¶Sent when Django finishes delivering an HTTP response to the client.
Arguments sent with this signal:
sender
got_request_exception
¶django.core.signals.
got_request_exception
¶This signal is sent whenever Django encounters an exception while processing an incoming HTTP request.
Arguments sent with this signal:
sender
request
HttpRequest
object.Signals only sent when running tests.
setting_changed
¶django.test.signals.
setting_changed
¶This signal is sent when the value of a setting is changed through the
django.test.TestCase.settings()
context manager or the
django.test.override_settings()
decorator/context manager.
It’s actually sent twice: when the new value is applied (“setup”) and when the
original value is restored (“teardown”). Use the enter
argument to
distinguish between the two.
You can also import this signal from django.core.signals
to avoid importing
from django.test
in non-test situations.
Arguments sent with this signal:
sender
setting
value
value
is None
.enter
True
if the setting is applied, False
if restored.Signals sent by the database wrapper when a database connection is initiated.
connection_created
¶django.db.backends.signals.
connection_created
¶Sent when the database wrapper makes the initial connection to the database. This is particularly useful if you’d like to send any post connection commands to the SQL backend.
Arguments sent with this signal:
sender
django.db.backends.postgresql.DatabaseWrapper
or
django.db.backends.mysql.DatabaseWrapper
, etc.connection
Dec 24, 2018