Let's say I have these models:
class Material(models.Model):
name = models.CharField([...])
class Consumable(models.Model):
name = models.CharField([...])
restores = models.IntegerField([...])
class Weapon(models.Model):
name = models.CharField([...])
damage = models.IntegerField([...])
# And then I have an 'inventory', like this one:
class Inventory(models.Model):
user = models.ForeignKey([...]) # to which user you want to link the item
item = models.ForeignKey([...]]) # which item
quantity = models.IntegerField([...]) # how many of it
I want to be able to have all Material, Consumable, and Weapon models listed in the 'item' field, so when you want to add an item as an inline, you would see all 3 models' objects.
Something like
# instead of this
item = models.ForeignKey(Consumable) # which item
# want something like this
item = models.ForeignKey(Consumable and Material and Weapon) # which item
# this wouldn't work ofc...
Is there a way to collect all 3 of them and pass them to the 'item' field, without the need of restarting the server? (when making a "choices" list that queries from a model you must restart the server to see the newly added objects, I don't want that.)
I also want to stick to the built-in admin of Django since it provided everything I need for the past couple of months, but I am open to any ideas.
I could be wrong but I think you are making this more complex than it needs to be. Instead of doing separate classes for materials (type of material) and consumable (type of product), you can have that built in the last class as model field as category or bolean fields.
class Products(models.Model):
material_type =
consumable = boolean for yes no or you can do multiple choice field
Then for items you can query the number of items based on material_type or consumable model fields (see query filters for for more).
all_items = Products.model.all()
consumable_items = Products.model.filter(your filter logic goes here)
Hope this helps!
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Hello folks Im new to Django(I have just the finished the tutorial) but I think i understand the basic concepts of it .Im writing here because Im trying to do something "difficult" for my current experience with django and searching the internet didnt give me a solution .What im trying to do is to create a dynamic model based on the number of entries of another model .To be more exact lets say i got the following model :
class criteria(models.Model):
criteria_text = models.CharField(max_length=200)
monotonicity = models.CharField(max_length=1,choices=(('+','ASCEDING'),('-','DESCENDING')),default='+',verbose_name='Monotonicity')
worst = models.IntegerField(default=0)
best = models.IntegerField(default=0)
What i want to do is create all the criteria models instances i want through the django admin panel and then query for all the creteria_text instances in the database and make a model with an attribute for every criteria_text instance.
So lets say I add the following criteria to the database(these are criteria_text attributes of criteria objects: Color,Weight,Price .
I want to end up with a model like this :
class Alternative(models.Model):
Color = models.IntegerField(default=0)
Weight = models.IntegerField(default=0)
Price = models.IntegerField(default=0)
The thing is that in my application this one has to happen a lot of times so i cannot make model each time someone adds an Alternative based on different criteria .
After searching i found that i can define dynamic models using the following format :
attrs = {
'name': models.CharField(max_length=32),
'__module__': 'myapp.models'
}
Animal = type("Animal", (models.Model,), attrs)
So the question is how can I define "attrs" based on a query that gets all the criteria in the database ?Can i define a relationship of this dynamic model with another model ? Also the models already created should be updated if a user adds more criteria .
Is something like this possible ?
If so please show me the path .
I don't think defining dynamic models is a good solution here (or anywhere, really). Rather, you need a relationship that can have as many items as there are criteria instances.
It might be something like this:
class Alternative(models.Model):
name = models.CharField(...)
choices = models.ManyToManyField("Criteria", through="AlternativeChoice")
class AlternativeChoice(models.Model):
alternative = models.ForeignKey('Alternative')
criteria = models.ForeignKey('Criteria')
value = models.IntegerField(default=0)
The real logic will belong in the form, where you will need to create options for each criteria entry, and validate the AlternativeChoice dependent on the related criteria.
I have a Route model which should store an ordered list of stops along that route. How should I go about modeling this relation?
class Stop(models.Model):
name = ..
latitude = ..
longitude = ..
class Route(models.Model):
stops_list = # Ordered list of stops on the route
Since there are many Stops along a Route, and stops could belong to multiple routes, I would use a ManyToMany to store this relationship. You may specify a through model to store data about the relationship, such as what time the route is expected to arrive at this stop. There are many options to add order information. One naive way would be to have an Integer order field as below, or you could store order implicity via arrival_time. If these routes do not change often, IntegerField is not a terrible implementation. However, if they do change often then you would need to update the fields.... not ideal.
class Stop(models.Model):
name = ..
latitude = ..
longitude = ..
class Route(models.Model):
stops_list = models.ManytoManyField(Stop, through='StopInfo') # Ordered list of stops on the route
class StopInfo(models.Model):
""" Model for storing data about the Stop/Route relationship """
stop = models.ForeignKey(Stop)
route = models.ForeignKey(Route)
arrival_time = models.DateTimeField(auto_now_add=True)
order = models.PositiveIntegerField()
I'm not sure why this is causing me such a problem but I can't seem to get it figured out. I've got a CSV and PDF export for products in our Mezzanine / Cartridge product DB. It exports each ProductVariation in a row. Works great but I need to add a filter that exports only published products for instance. ProductVariations have a foreignkey relation to the Product model:
class ProductVariation(Priced):
"""
A combination of selected options from
``SHOP_OPTION_TYPE_CHOICES`` for a ``Product`` instance.
"""
product = models.ForeignKey("Product", related_name="variations")
The product model subclasses Displayable:
class Product(Displayable, Priced, RichText, AdminThumbMixin):
"""
Container model for a product that stores information common to
all of its variations such as the product's title and description.
"""
The Displayable class is used to determine whether a product is displayed for normal users or staff only:
CONTENT_STATUS_DRAFT = 1
CONTENT_STATUS_PUBLISHED = 2
CONTENT_STATUS_COMPLETE = 3
CONTENT_STATUS_INACTIVE = 4
CONTENT_STATUS_CHOICES = (
(CONTENT_STATUS_DRAFT, _("Draft")),
(CONTENT_STATUS_PUBLISHED, _("Online")),
(CONTENT_STATUS_COMPLETE, _("Complete")),
(CONTENT_STATUS_INACTIVE, _("Inactive")),
)
class Displayable(Slugged, MetaData, TimeStamped):
"""
Abstract model that provides features of a visible page on the
website such as publishing fields. Basis of Mezzanine pages,
blog posts, and Cartridge products.
"""
status = models.IntegerField(_("Status"),
choices=CONTENT_STATUS_CHOICES, default=CONTENT_STATUS_DRAFT,
help_text=_("The General public can only view content that has ONLINE status."))
In trying to filter the results by Status however I can't seem to get it to work the way I expect. In my report view I'll add something like this:
product_variations = ProductVariation.objects.filter('product__status' == 'CONTENT_STATUS_PUBLISHED')
but it just gives me an error that "'bool' object is not iterable". What am I doing wrong?
When you write:
ProductVariation.objects.filter('product__status' == 'CONTENT_STATUS_PUBLISHED')
The expression 'product__status' == 'CONTENT_STATUS_PUBLISHED' becomes a boolean.
Right syntax is:
ProductVariation.objects.filter(product__status = 'CONTENT_STATUS_PUBLISHED')
I have a third party Django App (Satchmo) which has a model called Product which I make extensive use of in my Django site.
I want to add the ability to search for products via color. So I have created a new model called ProductColor. This model looks roughly like this...
class ProductColor(models.Model):
products = models.ManyToManyField(Product)
r = models.IntegerField()
g = models.IntegerField()
b = models.IntegerField()
name = models.CharField(max_length=32)
When a store product's data is loaded into the site, the product's color data is used to create a ProductColor object which will point to that Product object.The plan is to allow a user to search for a product by searching a color range.
I can't seem to figure out how to put this query into a QuerySet. I can make this...
# If the color ranges look something like this...
r_range, g_range, b_range = ((3,130),(0,255),(0,255))
# Then my query looks like
colors_in_range = ProductColor.objects.select_related('products')
if r_range:
colors_in_range = colors_in_range.filter(
Q(r__gte=r_range[0])
| Q(r__lte=r_range[1])
)
if g_range:
colors_in_range = colors_in_range.filter(
Q(g__gte=g_range[0])
| Q(g__lte=g_range[1])
)
if b_range:
colors_in_range = colors_in_range.filter(
Q(b__gte=b_range[0])
| Q(b__lte=b_range[1])
)
So I end up with a QuerySet which contains all of the ProductColor objects in that color range. I could then build a list of Products by accessing the products ManyToMany attribute of each ProductColor attribute.
What I really need is a valid QuerySet of Products. This is because there is going to be other logic which is performed on these results and it needs to operate on a QuerySet object.
So my question is how can I build the QuerySet that I really want? And failing that, is there an efficient way to re-build the QuerySet (preferably without hitting the database again)?
If you want to get a Product queryset you have to filter the Product objects and filter via the reverse relation for product color:
products = Product.objects.filter(productcolor_set__r__gte=x).distinct()
You can use the range field lookup:
You can use range anywhere you can use
BETWEEN in SQL -- for dates, numbers
and even characters.
your query:
r_range, g_range, b_range = ((3,130),(0,255),(0,255))
products = Product.objects.filter(productcolor_set__r__range=r_range,
productcolor_set__g__range=g_range,
productcolor_set__b__range=b_range).distinct()
Is there an easy way to fetch the ManyToMany objects from a query that returns more than one object? The way I am doing it now doesn't feel as sexy as I would like it to. Here is how I am doing it now in my view:
contacts = Contact.objects.all()
# Use Custom Manager Method to Fetch Each Contacts Phone Numbers
contacts = PhoneNumber.objects.inject(contacts)
My Models:
class PhoneNumber(models.Model):
number = models.CharField()
type = models.CharField()
# My Custom Manager
objects = PhoneNumberManager()
class Contact(models.Model):
name = models.CharField()
numbers = models.ManyToManyField(PhoneNumber, through='ContactPhoneNumbers')
class ContactPhoneNumbers(models.Model):
number = models.ForeignKey(PhoneNumber)
contact = models.ForeignKey(Contact)
ext = models.CharField()
My Custom Manager:
class PhoneNumberManager(models.Manager):
def inject(self, contacts):
contact_ids = ','.join([str(item.id) for item in contacts])
cursor = connection.cursor()
cursor.execute("""
SELECT l.contact_id, l.ext, p.number, p.type
FROM svcontact_contactphonenumbers l, svcontact_phonenumber p
WHERE p.id = l.number_id AND l.contact_id IN(%s)
""" % contact_ids)
result = {}
for row in cursor.fetchall():
id = str(row[0])
if not id in result:
result[id] = []
result[id].append({
'ext': row[1],
'number': row[2],
'type': row[3]
})
for contact in contacts:
id = str(contact.id)
if id in result:
contact.phonenumbers = result[id]
return contacts
There are a couple things you can do to find sexiness here :-)
Django does not have any OOTB way to inject the properties of the through table into your Contact instance. A M2M table with extra data is a SQL concept, so Django wouldn't try to fight the relations, nor guess what should happen in the event of namespace collision, etc... . In fact, I'd go so far as to say that you probably do not want to inject arbitrary model properties onto your Contact object... if you find yourself needing to do that, then it's probably a sign you should revise your model definition.
Instead, Django provides convenient ways to access the relation seamlessly, both in queries and for data retrieval, all the while preserving the integrity of the entities. In this case, you'll find that your Contact object offers a contactphonenumbers_set property that you can use to access the through data:
>>> c = Contact.objects.get(id=1)
>>> c.contactphonenumbers_set.all()
# Would produce a list of ContactPhoneNumbers objects for that contact
This means, in your case, to iterate of all contact phone numbers (for example) you would:
for contact in Contact.objects.all():
for phone in contact.contactphonenumbers_set.all():
print phone.number.number, phone.number.type, phone.ext
If you really, really, really want to do the injection for some reason, you'll see you can do that using the 3-line code sample immediately above: just change the print statements into assignment statements.
On a separate note, just for future reference, you could have written your inject function without SQL statements. In Django, the through table is itself a model, so you can query it directly:
def inject(self, contacts):
contact_phone_numbers = ContactPhoneNumbers.objects.\
filter(contact__in=contacts)
# And then do the result construction...
# - use contact_phone_number.number.phone to get the phone and ext
# - use contact_phone_number.contact to get the contact instance