Django – Cascade deletion in ManyToManyRelation

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I think you are misunderstanding the nature of a ManyToMany relationship. You talk about “the corresponding BlogEntry” being deleted. But the whole point of a ManyToMany is that each BlogEntryRevision has multiple BlogEntries related to it. (And, of course, each BlogEntry has multiple BlogEntryRevisions, but you know that already.)

From the names you have used, and the fact that you want this deletion cascade functionality, I think you would be better off with a standard ForeignKey from BlogEntryRevision to BlogEntry. As long as you don’t set null=True on that ForeignKey, deletions will cascade – when the BlogEntry is deleted, all Revisions will be too.

As Of Django 2.0

The ForeignKey initializer now requires you to specify the on_delete parameter:

from django.db import models
from .models import MyRelatedModel


class model(models.Model):
    related_model = models.ForeignKey(MyRelatedModel, on_delete=models.CASCADE)

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