copy_plugin

EquationPluginModel.copy_plugin(target_placeholder, target_language, parent_cache, no_signals=False)

Copy this plugin and return the new plugin.

The logic of this method is the following:

# get a new generic plugin instance # assign the position in the plugin tree # save it to let mptt/treebeard calculate the tree attributes # then get a copy of the current plugin instance # assign to it the id of the generic plugin instance above;

this will effectively change the generic plugin created above into a concrete one

# copy the tree related attributes from the generic plugin to

the concrete one

# save the concrete plugin # trigger the copy relations # return the generic plugin instance

This copy logic is required because we don’t know what the fields of the real plugin are. By getting another instance of it at step 4 and then overwriting its ID at step 5, the ORM will copy the custom fields for us.