djanorm 2.5.0

A Django-like ORM with synchronous and asynchronous support

djanorm

A Django-inspired ORM for Python with full synchronous and asynchronous support. The same API you know from Django, without depending on the full framework.

Works with SQLite and PostgreSQL, and ships with a migration system, atomic transactions, signals, validation, relationship loading (select_related / prefetch_related), aggregations, DB functions and much more — all with real static typing (Field[T]).

Installation

# SQLite
pip install "djanorm[sqlite]"

# PostgreSQL
pip install "djanorm[postgresql]"

Quick start

1. Scaffold a project

dorm init blog

That creates:

• settings.py — uncomment the DATABASES block matching your backend.
• blog/ — an app package with an empty models.py.

A minimal settings.py looks like:

DATABASES = {
    "default": {
        "ENGINE": "sqlite",
        "NAME": "db.sqlite3",
    },
}
INSTALLED_APPS = ["blog"]

2. Define a model

# blog/models.py
import dorm


class Author(dorm.Model):
    name = dorm.CharField(max_length=100)
    email = dorm.EmailField(unique=True)
    is_active = dorm.BooleanField(default=True)


class Post(dorm.Model):
    title = dorm.CharField(max_length=200)
    body = dorm.TextField()
    author = dorm.ForeignKey(Author, on_delete=dorm.CASCADE)
    published_at = dorm.DateTimeField(null=True, blank=True)

    class Meta:
        ordering = ["-published_at"]

3. Generate and apply migrations

dorm makemigrations blog
dorm migrate

4. Use it

Open a shell with dorm shell (IPython auto-detected) or import the models from your own script.

from blog.models import Author, Post

# Create
alice = Author.objects.create(name="Alice", email="[e-mail]")
post = Post.objects.create(
    title="Hello world",
    body="First post body.",
    author=alice,
)

# Bulk create
Post.objects.bulk_create([
    Post(title=f"Draft {i}", body="...", author=alice)
    for i in range(5)
])

# Filter / exclude / Q / F
from dorm import Q, F

active_authors = Author.objects.filter(is_active=True)
some_posts = Post.objects.filter(
    Q(title__icontains="hello") | Q(title__startswith="Draft")
).exclude(published_at__isnull=True)

# Lookups across relations
alices_posts = Post.objects.filter(author__name="Alice")

# select_related / prefetch_related to dodge N+1
for post in Post.objects.select_related("author"):
    print(post.author.name, post.title)   # 1 query, JOIN

# Get one
post = Post.objects.get(pk=1)

# Update — single instance
post.title = "Renamed"
post.save()

# Update — bulk via queryset
Post.objects.filter(author=alice).update(title=F("title") + " (by Alice)")

# Delete — single instance
post.delete()

# Delete — bulk
Post.objects.filter(published_at__isnull=True).delete()

Async API (same names with a prefix)

from blog.models import Author, Post

async def main():
    alice = await Author.objects.acreate(name="Alice", email="[e-mail]")
    post = await Post.objects.acreate(title="Hi", body="...", author=alice)

    async for p in Post.objects.filter(author=alice):
        print(p.title)

    await Post.objects.filter(pk=post.pk).aupdate(title="Hi!")
    await post.adelete()

Atomic transactions

from dorm import transaction

with transaction.atomic():
    alice = Author.objects.create(name="Alice", email="[e-mail]")
    Post.objects.create(title="t", body="b", author=alice)
    # any exception here rolls back both inserts

Documentation

The full documentation, tutorials and API reference are published at:

https://rroblf01.github.io/d-orm/

You will find the getting-started guide, complete examples, the API reference and production deployment notes there.

Contributing

Everyone is welcome to get involved! If you want to suggest changes, propose improvements or discuss the direction of the project, open an issue or a pull request on this repository. Discussions, ideas and critiques are very welcome.

License

See LICENSE.