django-querysetsequence 0.8

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

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. AttributeError is raised on attributes not explictly inherited from QuerySet.

QuerySet API implemented by QuerySetSequence

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()	✗
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()	✗
earliest()	✗
first()	✗
last()	✗
aggregate()	✗
exists()	✓
update()	✗	Cannot be implemented in QuerySetSequence.
delete()	✓
as_manager()	✓

[1] (1,2,3,4)

QuerySetSequence supports a special field lookup that looks up the index of the QuerySet, this is represented by '#'. This can be used in any of the operations that normally take field lookups (i.e. filter(), exclude(), and get()), as well as order_by().

A few examples are below:

# Order first by QuerySet, then by the value of the 'title' field.
QuerySetSequence(...).order_by('#', 'title')

# Filter out the first QuerySet.
QuerySetSequence(...).filter(**{'#__gt': 0})

Note

Ordering first by QuerySet allows for a more optimized code path when iterating over the entries.

Warning

Not all lookups are supported when using '#' (some lookups simply don’t make sense; others are just not supported). The following are allowed:

• exact

• iexact

• contains

• icontains

• in

• gt

• gte

• lt

• lte

• startswith

• istartswith

• endswith

• iendswith

• range

Requirements

• Python (2.7, 3.4, 3.5, 3.6)

• Django (1.8, 1.9, 1.10, 1.11)

• (Optionally) Django REST Framework (3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 3.5, 3.6)

QuerySetSequence versions with support for Django/Django REST Framework

	Django 1.8	Django 1.9	Django 1.10	Django 1.11
Django REST Framework 3.2	0.7	✗	✗	✗
Django REST Framework 3.3	0.7	0.7	✗	✗
Django REST Framework 3.4	0.7	0.7	0.7	0.7.1
Django REST Framework 3.5	0.7.1	0.7.1	0.7.1	0.7.1
Django REST Framework 3.6	0.8	0.8	0.8	0.8

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.

You can also provide a model keyword argument if you need to specify the QuerySet Model, e.g. for compatibility with some third-party applications that check the model field for equality

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:

• Originally from https://www.djangosnippets.org/snippets/1103/

• Modified version from https://djangosnippets.org/snippets/1253/

• Upgraded version from https://djangosnippets.org/snippets/1933/

• Updated version from django-ko-demo from The Atlantic

Contribute

• Check for open issues or open a fresh issue to start a discussion around a feature idea or a bug.

• Fork the repository on GitHub to start making your changes.

• 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.