How do I make an auto increment integer field in Django?

Question

I am making an Order model for a shopping cart and I need to make a field that auto increments when the order is made:

class Order(models.Model):
    cart = models.ForeignKey(Cart)
    add_date = models.DateTimeField(auto_now_add=True)
    order_number = models.IntegerField()
    enable = models.BooleanField(default=True)

How do I make the IntegerField auto increment?

Answer 1

In Django

1 : Django model class has default field with name id which is auto increment Field.
2 : You can define your own auto increment field using AutoField field.

class Order(models.Model):
    auto_increment_id = models.AutoField(primary_key=True)
    # primary_key = True if you do not want to use default field "id" given by django to your model

db design

+------------+---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Table      | Create Table                                                                                                                                                  |
+------------+---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| core_order | CREATE TABLE `core_order` (
  `auto_increment_id` int(11) NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
  PRIMARY KEY (`auto_increment_id`)
) ENGINE=InnoDB DEFAULT CHARSET=latin1 |
+------------+---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
1 row in set (0.01 sec)

If you want to use django's default id as increment field .

class Order(models.Model):
    add_date = models.DateTimeField(auto_now_add=True)

db design

+-------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Table       | Create Table                                                                                                                                                    |
+-------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| core_order | CREATE TABLE `core_order` (
  `id` int(11) NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
  `add_date` datetime NOT NULL,
  PRIMARY KEY (`id`)
) ENGINE=InnoDB DEFAULT CHARSET=latin1 |
+-------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+