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Allowing BigIntegerField in taggedItems#693

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@sowdust sowdust commented Sep 30, 2020

Allows Taggable Items to have BigIntegerField as primary key. See #692

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class GenericTaggedItemBase(CommonGenericTaggedItemBase):
object_id = models.IntegerField(verbose_name=_("object ID"), db_index=True)
object_id = models.BigIntegerField(verbose_name=_("object ID"), db_index=True)
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this will break backward compatibility

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I see no other way to fix this issue : (

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They could do a version check of Django before migrating.
And use:

In [1]: import django
In [2]: django.VERSION
Out [2]: (3, 1, 1, 'final', 0)

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probably moving to abstract base model is the best futuristic approach

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rtpg commented Apr 14, 2021

This change as-is would break backwards compatibility with everyone using this base. After triaging a hundred+ issues, I think a big thing is the custom tag documentation. I'm going to work on improving it so that there could be a good answer here. But this as-is won't work, unfortunately

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