Auto increament the invoice number in django backend for new invoice

Question

I want to auto increament the invoice number which is 3 digits char and 4 digits number.

class Invoice:
    invoice_no = models.CharField(max_length=500, null=Tr         


        

Answer 1

def invoiceIncrement():
    get_last_invoice_number
    incremente_last_invoice_number
    return next_invoice_number

class Invoice:
    invoice_no = models.CharField(max_length=500, null=True, blank=True, 
        validators=[RegexValidator(regex='^[a-zA-Z0-9]*$',
        message='Invoice must be Alphanumeric',code='invalid_invoice number'),], 
        default=invoiceIncrement)

Try this: there are some obvious issues:

1. if more than one person adds an invoice at the same time, could have collision

2. will need to make an extra db call each time you create a new invoice.

Also: you may want to just consider using either an auto_increment or UUID.