doc_id

PatrickJHess

I have a feature where users are able to share data from a table. In 4.0 I could get the sender's record from a table and insert it as a new entry in the same table and recover a new doc_id that was assigned to the receiving user. At that moment the records are identical; however, not in the future. The code was like this:
x=table.get(doc_id=sender_doc_id)
receiver_doc_id=table.insert(x)
Worked fine in 4.0. In 4.3 this fails. Instead I had to setup a dummy entry
y={}
receiver_doc_id=table.insert(y)
table.update(x,doc_ids=[receiver_doc_id])
Was this an intentional change? If so why?

By the way....this is a cool little database

msiemens

Hey PatrickJHess,

I think this may be related to v4.2.0 which included

Feature: Add support for specifying document IDs during insertion

If you insert a document that was retrieved from TinyDB, TinyDB will use its ID to update the document. This also allows to manually set a document ID when creating a new document.

You should be able to work around that by converting the document from Document (which TinyDB returns) to a dict:

x = table.get(doc_id=sender_doc_id)
receiver_doc_id = table.insert(dict(x))

Does that work for you?

Regards