Django Tastypie Advanced Filtering: How to do complex lookups with Q objects

Question

I have a basic Django model like:

class Business(models.Model):
    name = models.CharField(max_length=200, unique=True)
    email = models.EmailField()
             


        

Answer 1

I solved this problem like so:

Class MyResource(ModelResource):

  def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
    super(MyResource, self).__init__(*args, **kwargs)
    self.q_filters = []

  def build_filters(self, filters=None):
    orm_filters = super(MyResource, self).build_filters(filters)

    q_filter_needed_1 = []
    if "what_im_sending_from_client" in filters:
      if filters["what_im_sending_from_client"] == "my-constraint":
        q_filter_needed_1.append("something to filter")

    if q_filter_needed_1:
      a_new_q_object = Q()
      for item in q_filter_needed:
        a_new_q_object = a_new_q_object & Q(filtering_DB_field__icontains=item)
      self.q_filters.append(a_new_q_object)

  def apply_filters(self, request, applicable_filters):
    filtered = super(MyResource, self).apply_filters(request, applicable_filters)

    if self.q_filters:
      for qf in self.q_filters:
        filtered = filtered.filter(qf)
      self.q_filters = []

    return filtered

This method feels like a cleaner separation of concerns than the others that I've seen.