We have following models:
class Publisher(models.Model):
name = models.CharField(max_length=32)
local_name = models.CharField(max_length=32)
url_pattern = models.CharField(max_length=128)
enabled = models.BooleanField(default=True)
home_page = models.BooleanField(default=False)
category = models.ForeignKey(NewspaperCategory, null=True)
class Newspaper(models.Model):
class Meta:
unique_together = ("publisher", "date")
ordering = ("-date",)
publisher = models.ForeignKey(Publisher)
image = models.ImageField(upload_to=newspaper_upload_to)
thumbnail = models.ImageField(upload_to=newspaper_thumbnail_upload_to)
date = models.DateField()
I have a APIView (Django rest framework) and there are several different query parameters which filter the output of API. I'd like to have a "latest" query parameter which lists only the latest version of each publisher. Also, I need to be able to do further filtering and slicing on that QuerySet before evaluating it.
But the result of query should be Newspaper instances not dict so I can feed them to my serializer.
My view looks like this at the moment :
class Newspapers(APIView):
def get(self, request):
queryset = models.Newspaper.objects.filter(deleted=False).prefetch_related('publisher')
if "latest" in request.GET:
# doing something here with queryset
if "publisher_id" in request.GET:
queryset = queryset.filter(publisher_id=request.GET['publisher_id'])
if "category" in request.GET:
queryset = queryset.filter(publisher__category_id=request.GET['category'])
if "before" in request.GET:
queryset = queryset.filter(date__lt=request.GET['before'])
if "after" in request.GET:
queryset = queryset.filter(date__gte=request.GET['after'])
if "home_page" in request.GET:
queryset = queryset.filter(publisher__home_page=request.GET['home_page'].lower() == 'true')
queryset = queryset.order_by('-date', 'publisher__order')
return PagingResponse(
request,
serializers.NewspaperVersionSerializer,
query=queryset,
identifier_name='date'
)
We can do this with two queries:
if "latest" in request.GET:
latest_ids = list( # <-- first query
queryset.order_by('id')
.values('publisher_id')
.annotate(id=Max('id'))
.values_list('id', flat=True)
)
queryset = queryset.filter(id__in=latest_ids) # <-- second query
the first query gets list of latest newspaper group by publisher, and the second query gets a queryset of those newspaper for further filtering, slicing and ...