In Django's ORM, is there a way to detect whether code is executing inside a transaction?

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Eg, I want this function:

from django.db import transaction


with transaction.atomic():
    assert inside_transaction() == True


assert inside_transaction() == False

Is there a way to achieve this? Or is it possible to detect directly in psycopg2 if not in Django's ORM?

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1 Answers

Looking at the source code [GitHub] for the Atomic class that is used by transaction.atomic it sets a flag in_atomic_block on the connection. Hence if you want to check if your code is inside a transaction you can write the follows:

with transaction.atomic():
    assert transaction.get_connection().in_atomic_block == True

assert transaction.get_connection().in_atomic_block == False

Note: The get_connection function optionally takes a parameter using, in case you specify using for the call to transaction.atomic, you should pass it to get_connection as well.

Better yet since get_connection is a private API just write a small function of your own to check this:

from django.db import transaction
from django.db import (
    DEFAULT_DB_ALIAS, connections,
)


def inside_transaction(using=None):
    if using is None:
        using = DEFAULT_DB_ALIAS
    return connections[using].in_atomic_block


with transaction.atomic():
    assert inside_transaction() == True


assert inside_transaction() == False
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