Django order_by specific order

Question

Is it possible to replicate this kind of specific sql ordering in the django ORM:

order by

(case

    when id = 5 then 1

    when id = 2 then 2

    when i         


        

Answer 1

It is possible. Since Django 1.8 you can do in the following way:

from django.db.models import Case, When

ids = [5, 2, 3, 1, 4]
order = Case(*[When(id=id, then=pos) for pos, id in enumerate(ids)])
queryset = MyModel.objects.filter(id__in=ids).order_by(order)