Retrieve items from Many-to-Many relationship in Django query - django

Question

Models.py
class SalesOrderItems(models.Model):
item = models.ForeignKey(MasterItems, on_delete=models.CASCADE)
item_quantity = models.IntegerField(default=0)
class SalesOrder(models.Model):
delivery_method_choice = (('Full-Truck Load', 'Full-Truck Load'), ('Part-Truck Load', 'Part-Truck Load'))
status_choices = (('On Hold', 'On Hold'),('Ready to Dispatch', 'Ready to Dispatch'),('Dispatched', 'Dispatched'))
owner = models.ForeignKey(Teacher, on_delete=models.CASCADE, related_name='so_owner')
client = models.ForeignKey(MasterClient, on_delete=models.CASCADE, related_name='so_client')
reference_no = models.CharField(max_length=500, blank=True, null=True)
date = models.DateField(default=datetime.date.today)
shipment_date = models.DateField(default=datetime.date.today)
delivery_method = models.CharField(max_length=500, default='Full-Truck Load', choices=delivery_method_choice)
items = models.ManyToManyField(SalesOrderItems, related_name='items_so', blank=True, null=True)
status = models.CharField(max_length=500, default='On Hold', choices=status_choices)
origin = models.CharField(max_length=255)
destination = models.CharField(max_length=255)
I want to retrieve the items of a particular sales order by django query
My attempt to get the items:
items = []
for i in sales_orders:
so = SalesOrder.objects.filter(pk=i)[0]
print("items",so.items)
Output:
items classroom.SalesOrderItems.None
How can I get the list of items in a particular SalesOrder ??

Answer 1

sales_orders = SalesOrder.objects.prefetch_related('items').filter(**sales_filter_here)
for sales_order in sales_orders:
for sales_order_item in sales_order.items.all():
print(sales_order_item)

Answer 2

this query will work for you
SalesOrder.objects.filter(id=1).values_list('items__item__item_name')
below is my simple Masteritems model
class MasterItems(models.Model):
item_name = models.CharField(max_length=50)
def __str__(self):
return self.item_name
by this way you will get every item name in queryset. this is my simple output
<QuerySet [('rice',), ('pepsi',), ('Computer',)]>