Django foreign key in manager's create function

Question

Apologies if this is a really stupid question...

Say I have a model and manager, like this,

class TestModel_1Manager (models.Manager):
    def create (self, tk)
        m = self.model(test_key=tk)

class TestModel_1 (models.Model):
    test_key = models.ForeignKey ('TestModel_2')
    objects = TestModel_1Manager

Several questions:

Is this right at all?
If this is right, then the models.ForeignKey field does NOT take an object? Just a simple id integer is fine? That is, I don't need to do this: m = self.model(test_key=TestModel_1.objects.get(id=tk)) or something like that?

Maybe I don't quite get what this models.ForeignKey actually is... an integer or some object reference?

Thanks!!

EDIT: just found this post Django: Set foreign key using integer?, wondering if it's relevant...

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Jun 22 '13 at 03:13

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ForeignKey is an abstraction. The field's value is another object, but it is represented in the table as the value of the PK of that object.

answered Jun 22 '13 at 03:13

Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams

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So... which one is right? `m = self.model(test_key=tk)` is this right? Or `m = self.model(test_key=TestModel_1.objects.get(id=tk))` ? – reedvoid Jun 22 '13 at 03:19
`m = self.model(test_key_id=tk)` – Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams Jun 22 '13 at 03:28

Django foreign key in manager's create function

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