How do I clone a Django model instance object and save it to the database

Question

In the database, I want to add another object which is a copy of the object below:

Foo.objects.get(pk="foo")
<Foo: test>

Suppose my table has one row. I want to insert the first row object into another row with a different primary key. How can I do that?

Answer 1

Hello @kartik,

Just change the primary key of your object and run save().

obj = Foo.objects.get(pk=<some_existing_pk>)
obj.pk = None
obj.save()

If you want auto-generated key, set the new key to None.

Hope this works!!

Thank You!!