Using Django ListView with custom query - django

Question

I have a set of django models that are set out as follows:
class Foo(models.Model):
...
class FooVersion(models.Model):
name = models.CharField(max_length=100)
parent = models.ForeignKey(Foo)
version = models.FloatField()
...
I'm trying to create a Django ListView that displays all Foos, in alphabetical order by the name of their highest version. For example, if I have a data set that looks like:
version_id | id | version_name | version
-----------+----+-----------------------------------+---------
1 | 1 | Test 1 | 1.0
2 | 1 | Test 2 | 2.0
3 | 1 | Test 2 | 3.0
4 | 2 | Test 1 | 1.0
5 | 1 | Test 3 | 2.5
6 | 3 | Test 3 | 1.0
I want the query to return:
version_id | id | version_name | version
-----------+----+-----------------------------------+---------
4 | 2 | Test 1 | 1.0
3 | 1 | Test 2 | 3.0
6 | 3 | Test 3 | 1.0
The raw sql I would use to generate this is:
SELECT version_class.id as version_id, someapp_foo.id, version_class.name as version_name, version_class.version
FROM someapp_foo
INNER JOIN(
SELECT someapp_fooversion.name, someapp_fooversion.version, someapp_fooversion.parent_id, someapp_fooversion.id
FROM someapp_fooversion
INNER JOIN(
SELECT parent_id, max(version) AS version
FROM courses_courseversion GROUP BY parent_id)
AS current_version ON current_version.parent_id = someapp_fooversion.parent_id
AND current_version.version = someapp_fooversion.version)
AS version_class ON version_class.parent_id = someapp_foo.id
ORDER BY version_name;
But I'm having trouble using a raw query because the RawQuerySet object doesn't have a 'count' method, which is called by ListView for pagination. I've looked into the 'extra' feature of Django querysets, but I'm having trouble formulating a query that will work with that.
How would I formulate a query for 'extra' that would get me what I'm looking for? Or is there a way to convert a RawQuerySet into a regular QuerySet? Any other possible solutions to get the results I'm looking for?

Answer 1

There may be a better way to do this, but for now I'm trying a custom solution that seems to work:
from django.db import models
from django.db.models.query import RawQuerySet
class CountableRawQuerySet(RawQuerySet):
def count(self):
return sum([1 for obj in self])
class FooManager(models.Manager):
def raw(self, raw_query, params=None, *args, **kwargs):
return CountableRawQuerySet(raw_query=raw_query, model=self.model, params=params, using=self._db, *args, **kwargs)
class Foo(models.Model):
objects = FooManager()
Then my queryset is:
Foo.objects.raw(sql)
Suggestions on how to improve this?

Answer 2

First of all - your solution is wrong and very uneffective with a big amount of data.
I believe you just need something like:
from django.db.models import Max
Foo.objects.annotate(max_version=Max(fooversion__version))
You can now reffer to max_version attribute in each result as to normal attribute.
Please see https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/topics/db/aggregation/ for details.

Answer 3

One other point to add is that RawQuerySet works fine with a ListView as long as you don't use pagination, i.e. you can just leave out the paginate_by = NN attribute from your ListView subclass.