Django REST Framework - Filtering

Question

I want to filter multiple fields with multiple queries like this:

api/listings/?subburb=Subburb1, Subburb2&property_type=House,Apartment,Townhouse,Farm .         


        

Answer 1

filtering on filters on filters is not messy it is called chained filters.

And chain filters are necessary because sometime there is going to be property_type some time not:

if property_type:
    qs = qs.filter(property_type=property_type)

If you are thinking there is going to be multiple queries then not, it will still executed in one query because queryset are lazy.

Alternatively you can build a dict and pass it just one time:

d = {'property_type:': property_type, 'subburb': subburb}
qs = MyModel.objects.filter(**d)