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Chain together multiple (disparate) QuerySets to treat them as a single QuerySet.

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The QuerySetSequence wrapper helps to deal with disparate QuerySet classes, while treating them as a single QuerySet.

Supported Features

Listed below are features of Django’s QuerySets that QuerySetSequence implements. The behavior should match that of QuerySet, but applied across multiple QuerySets:

  • Methods that take a list of fields (e.g. filter(), exclude(), get(), order_by()) must use fields that are common across all sub-QuerySets.

  • Relationships across related models work (e.g. 'foo__bar', 'foo', or 'foo_id'). syntax).

  • The sub-QuerySets are evaluated as late as possible (e.g. during iteration, slicing, pickling, repr()/len()/list()/bool() calls).

  • Public QuerySet API methods that are untested/unimplemented raise NotImplementedError.

QuerySet API implemented by QuerySetSequence

Methods that return new QuerySets

Method

Implemented?

Notes

filter()

See [1] for information on the QuerySet lookup: '#'.

exclude()

See [1] for information on the QuerySet lookup: '#'.

annotate()

order_by()

Does not support random ordering (e.g. order_by('?')). See [1] for information on the QuerySet lookup: '#'.

reverse()

distinct()

values()

values_list()

dates()

datetimes()

none()

all()

union()

intersection()

difference()

select_related()

prefetch_related()

extra()

defer()

only()

using()

select_for_update()

raw()

Operators that return new QuerySets

Operator

Implemented?

Notes

AND (&)

A QuerySetSequence can be combined with a QuerySet. The QuerySets in the QuerySetSequence are filtered to ones matching the same Model. Each of those is ANDed with the other QuerySet.

OR (|)

A QuerySetSequence can be combined with a QuerySet or QuerySetSequence. When combining with a QuerySet, it is added to the QuerySetSequence. Combiningg with another QuerySetSequence adds together the two underlying sets of QuerySets.

Methods that do not return QuerySets

Method

Implemented?

Notes

get()

See [1] for information on the QuerySet lookup: '#'.

create()

Cannot be implemented in QuerySetSequence.

get_or_create()

Cannot be implemented in QuerySetSequence.

update_or_create()

Cannot be implemented in QuerySetSequence.

bulk_create()

Cannot be implemented in QuerySetSequence.

count()

in_bulk()

Cannot be implemented in QuerySetSequence.

iterator()

latest()

If no fields are given, get_latest_by on each model is required to be identical.

earliest()

See the docuemntation for latest().

first()

If no ordering is set this is essentially the same as calling first() on the first QuerySet, if there is an ordering, the result of first() for each QuerySet is compared and the “first” value is returned.

last()

See the documentation for first().

aggregate()

exists()

update()

delete()

as_manager()

explain()

Only available on Django >= 2.1.

Requirements

Installation

Install the package using pip.

pip install --upgrade django-querysetsequence

Usage

# Import QuerySetSequence
from queryset_sequence import QuerySetSequence

# Create QuerySets you want to chain.
from .models import SomeModel, OtherModel

# Chain them together.
query = QuerySetSequence(SomeModel.objects.all(), OtherModel.objects.all())

# Use query as if it were a QuerySet! E.g. in a ListView.

Example

class Author(models.Model):
    name = models.CharField(max_length=50)

    class Meta:
        ordering = ['name']

    def __str__(self):
        return self.name


class Article(models.Model):
    title = models.CharField(max_length=100)
    author = models.ForeignKey(Author)

    def __str__(self):
        return "%s by %s" % (self.title, self.author)


class Book(models.Model):
    title = models.CharField(max_length=50)
    author = models.ForeignKey(Author)
    release = models.DateField(auto_now_add=True)

    def __str__(self):
        return "%s by %s" % (self.title, self.author)

# Create some data.
alice = Author.objects.create(name='Alice')
article = Article.objects.create(title='Dancing with Django', author=alice)

bob = Author.objects.create(name='Bob')
article = Article.objects.create(title='Django-isms', author=bob)
article = Book.objects.create(title='Biography', author=bob)

# Create some QuerySets.
books = Book.objects.all()
articles = Article.objects.all()

# Combine them into a single iterable.
published_works = QuerySetSequence(books, articles)

# Find Bob's titles.
bob_works = published_works.filter(author=bob)
# Still an iterable.
print([w.title for w in bob_works])  # prints: ['Biography', 'Django-isms']

# Alphabetize the QuerySet.
published_works = published_works.order_by('title')
print([w.title for w in published_works])  # prints ['Biography', 'Dancing with Django', 'Django-isms']

Django REST Framework integration

django-querysetsequence comes with a custom CursorPagination class that helps integration with Django REST Framework. It is optimized to iterate over a QuerySetSequence first by QuerySet and then by the normal ordering configuration. This uses the optimized code-path for iteration that avoids interleaving the individual QuerySets. For example:

from queryset_sequence.pagination import SequenceCursorPagination

class PublicationPagination(SequenceCursorPagination):
    ordering = ['author', 'title']

class PublicationViewSet(viewsets.ModelViewSet):
    pagination_class = PublicationPagination

    def get_queryset(self):
        # This will return all Books first, then all Articles. Each of those
        # is individually ordered by ``author``, then ``title``.
        return QuerySetSequence(Book.objects.all(), Article.objects.all())

Attribution

This is based on a few DjangoSnippets that had been going around:

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  • Write a test which shows that the bug was fixed or that the feature works as expected.

  • Send a pull request and bug the maintainer until it gets merged and published.

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