Django OneToOneField and signals

Question

I have a model called DeviceStatus which has a OneToOne relationship with another model called Device. I want to get the id passed to the DeviceStatus object before saving, but all I get is a ForwardManyToOneDescriptor object.

class DeviceStatus(TimeStampedModel):
    device = models.OneToOneField(Device)
    # other fields

    def __unicode__(self):
        return u'{}'.format(self.device)

    def copy_to_archive(**kwargs):
        print DeviceStatus.device

    pre_save.connect(copy_to_archive)

Can somebody guide me through how to get the Device id being passed? TIA

Answer 1

Should be instance method

def copy_to_archive(self, **kwargs):
    print self.device

Also connecting signal like this won't work. But this is different question.

Answering comment and extending my answer in comment to post

This what needed to be done

class MyClass(models.Model):
    #....
    @classmethod
    def before_save(cls, sender, instance, *args, **kwargs):
        instance.test_field = "It worked"

pre_save.connect(MyClass.before_save, sender=MyClass)

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