phwt
phwt

Reputation: 1402

Django ORM - Join many-to-many with through table

I have 3 models:

class Task(models.Model):
    name = models.CharField(max_length=50)
    detail = models.TextField()
    employees = models.ManyToManyField('Employee', through='AssignedUser', related_name='tasks')

class AssignedUser(models.Model):
    task = models.ForeignKey(task, on_delete=models.CASCADE)
    employee = models.ForeignKey(Employee, on_delete=models.CASCADE)
    completed = models.BooleanField(default=False)

class Employee(models.Model):
    user = models.OneToOneField(User, on_delete=models.CASCADE)
    department = models.ForeignKey(to=Department, on_delete=models.CASCADE, null=False)
    # Note - department field is not relevant to this question.

If I want to select a task name and the assigned employee's username who hasn't done the task yet (completed=False) how can I do that with Django's ORM?

Here's the equivalent SQL I wrote for the desired result which I have no idea how to achieve that with Django's ORM.

SELECT t.name, u.username
FROM appname_task t
JOIN appname_assigneduser au
    ON (t.id = au.work_id AND au.completed = false)
JOIN appname_employee ae
    ON (au.employee_id = ae.id)
JOIN auth_user u
    ON (ae.user_id = u.id)

Upvotes: 2

Views: 346

Answers (1)

willeM_ Van Onsem
willeM_ Van Onsem

Reputation: 476557

You can obtain this with:

from django.db.models import F

Task.objects.filter(assigneduser__completed=False).values(
    'name', username=F('employees__user__username')
)

Upvotes: 3

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