Django - OperationalError: (2006, 'MySQL server has gone away')

Question

Bottom line first: How do you refresh the MySQL connection in django?

Following a MySQL server has gone away error I found that MySQL docum

Answer 1

The idea of the solution is clear: reconnect to mysql if the current connection is broken.

Please check this out:

def make_sure_mysql_usable():
    from django.db import connection, connections
    # mysql is lazily connected to in django.
    # connection.connection is None means
    # you have not connected to mysql before
    if connection.connection and not connection.is_usable():
        # destroy the default mysql connection
        # after this line, when you use ORM methods
        # django will reconnect to the default mysql
        del connections._connections.default