Get django object id based on model attribute

Question

I have a basic model named \"Places\" which has this view:

def view_index(request, place_name):

The user will access that view with a URL l

Answer 1

Since you only want id, you should only query for id. A naive get will retrieve all fields on the database row. Either of these methods will only retrieve the data you want.

id = Place.objects.filter(name='kansas').values('id')[0]['id']

Or with values_list:

id = Place.objects.filter(name='kansas').values_list('id', flat=True).first()

Another method uses only:

id = Place.objects.only('id').get(name='kansas').id