How to get all objects referenced as ForeignKey from given field in a module in django

Question

I have two classes: Author and Book. I want class Authors to have an attribute that contains all books written by the said author, as referenced to as foreign key in the cla

Answer 1

Just add related_name to ForeignKey and you will be able to get all books made by an author.

For example:

class Book(models.Model):
    ...
    author = models.ForeignKey('Author', related_name='books')
    ...

and later...

author = Author.objects.get(pk=1)
books = author.books.all()

Answer 2

You don't need to create a separate field in Authors model

class Author(models.Model):
    AuthorName = models.CharField(max_length=255, unique=True)

class Book(models.Model):
    BookName = models.CharField(max_length=255)
    Author = models.ForeignKey('Author')

You can get all books of a particular author like:

author = Author.objects.get(id=1)
books = author.book_set.all()

Learn more about backward relationships here

Answer 3

You did something weird in line

books = Book.objects.get(pk=object_instance.pk)

Just delete it. You will be able to use author.book_set. You can also use related_name parameter of ForeignKey.

Look here for details: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.9/ref/models/fields/#foreignkey