Django: Return 'None' from OneToOneField if related object doesn't exist?

Question

I\'ve got a Django class like this:

class Breakfast(m.Model):
    # egg = m.OneToOneField(Egg)
    ...

class Egg(m.Model):
    breakfast = m.OneToOneField(Break         


        

Answer 1

I just ran into this problem, and found an odd solution to it: if you select_related(), then the attribute will be None if no related row exists, instead of raising an error.

>>> print Breakfast.objects.get(pk=1).egg
Traceback (most recent call last):
...
DoesNotExist: Egg matching query does not exist

>>> print Breakfast.objects.select_related("egg").get(pk=1).egg
None

I have no idea if this can be considered a stable feature though.