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Posted by Rodrigo Muñoz
Rodrigo Muñoz
Courses Plus Student 20,171 Points

What is the best way for building query filters in Django?

I have something like this:

http://i.imgur.com/BPpmf.png

In the models.py not only Boolean fields but also a selectField, a charField and textField. At the time I'm trying to figure out how to build a proper query filter (including a blank value), in which, the user is the one who decides.

At the time I have seen some old answers to this problem but I'm not actually sure how to do it. The alternatives are:

  1. Using a class based filter like this (answer is from 2009):

https://github.com/alex/piano-man/blob/db6f723dfc15155d7b2f900519d6ca3292a95f76/piano_man/tickets/filters.py

  1. Using raw queries in Django

  2. Using Django Restful (allow to exclude empty values)

  3. Using Django sessions (Need to figure out how first)

Have anyone experienced something similar?

1 Answer

Rodrigo Muñoz
Rodrigo Muñoz
Courses Plus Student 20,171 Points

In order to answer this. I have found a reusable application inside Django:

http://django-filter.readthedocs.org/en/stable/index.html

We also need to use Django forms.

Can't wait for the next Django Course!