Entries tagged with gfk

Working around Django's ORM to do interesting things with GFKs

In this post I want to discuss how to work around some of the shortcomings of djangos ORM when dealing with Generic Foreign Keys (GFKs).

At the end of the post I'll show how to work around django's lack of correctly CAST-ing when the generic foreign key is of a different column type than the objects it may point to.

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Connecting anything to anything with Django

I'm writing this post to introduce a new project I've released, django-generic-m2m, which as its name would indicate is a generic ManyToMany implementation for django models. The goal of this project was to provide a uniform API for both creating and querying generically-related content in a flexible manner. One use-case for this project would be creating semantic "tags" between diverse objects in the database.

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Generating aggregate data across generic relations

Aggregation support was added to django's ORM in version 1.1, allowing you to generate Sums, Counts, and more without having to write any SQL. According to the docs aggregation is not supported for generic relations. This entry describes how to work around this using the .extra() method.

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