Sometimes, your users might perform an action multiple times. They might click several times on the LIKE or UNLIKE buttons or perform the same action multiple times in a short period of time. This will easily lead to storing and displaying duplicate actions. To avoid this, we will improve the create_action() function to skip obvious duplicated actions.
Edit the utils.py file of the actions application, as follows:
import datetimefrom django.utils import timezonefrom django.contrib.contenttypes.models import ContentTypefrom .models import Actiondef create_action(user, verb, target=None): # check for any similar action made in the last minute now = timezone.now() last_minute = now - datetime.timedelta(seconds=60) ...
