djangorestframework-chain 0.1.3
Chained relations and filtering for Django REST Framework
License: MIT

`django-rest-framework-chain` is an extension to Django REST Framework that allows arbitrary chaining of both relations and lookup filters.

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Installation
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.. code-block:: bash

    $ pip install djangorestframework-chain

Requirements
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* Python 2.6+
* Django 1.4.5+

Usage
-----

Chaining filtering through relations
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

To enable chained filtering through relations:

.. code-block:: python

    from rest_framework import viewsets
    import django_filters
    from rest_framework_chain import ChainedFilterSet, RelatedFilter

    # Just a regular FilterSet
    class UserFilter(django_filters.FilterSet):
        username = django_filters.CharFilter(name='username')
        ...

    class PageFilter(ChainedFilterSet):
        title = django_filters.CharFilter(name='title')
        author = RelatedFilter(UserFilter, name='author')

    # Then just use the PageFilter as you would any other FilterSet:

    class PageView(viewsets.ModelViewSet):
        ...
        filter_class = PageFilter

then we can automatically chain our filters through the ``author`` relation, as so::

    /api/page/?author__username=philipn


Allowing any lookup type on a field
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

We can use the ``AllLookupsFilter`` to allow all possible lookup types on a particular
field.  While we could otherwise specify these by hand, e.g.:

.. code-block:: python

    class ProductFilter(django_filters.FilterSet):
        min_price = django_filters.NumberFilter(name="price", lookup_type='gte')
        ...

to allow the ``price__gte`` lookup.  But this gets cumbersome, and we sometimes want to
allow any possible lookups on particular fields.  We do this by using ``AllLookupsFilter``:

.. code-block:: python

    from rest_framework import viewsets
    import django_filters
    from rest_framework_chain import ChainedFilterSet, AllLookupsFilter

    class PageFilter(ChainedFilterSet):
        title = AllLookupsFilter(name='title')
        ...

then we can use any possible lookup on the ``title`` field, e.g.::

    /api/page/?title__icontains=park

or ::

    /api/page/?title__startswith=The

and also filter on the default lookup (``exact``), as usual::

    /api/page/?title=The%20Park

Combining RelatedFilter and AllLookupsFilter
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

We can combine ``RelatedFilter`` and ``AllLookupsFilter``:

.. code-block:: python

    from rest_framework import viewsets
    import django_filters
    from rest_framework_chain import ChainedFilterSet, RelatedFilter

    class PageFilter(ChainedFilterSet):
        title = django_filters.CharFilter(name='title')
        author = RelatedFilter(UserFilter, name='author')

    # Just a regular FilterSet
    class UserFilter(ChainedFilterSet):
        username = AllLookupsFilter(name='username')
        ...

then we can filter like so::

    /api/page/?author__username__icontains=john

More information on RelatedFilter
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Recursive relations are supported.  You will need to specify the full module
path in the ``RelatedFilter`` definition in some cases, e.g.:

.. code-block:: python

   class PersonFilter(ChainedFilterSet):
    name = AllLookupsFilter(name='name')
    best_friend = RelatedFilter('people.views.PersonFilter', name='best_friend')

    class Meta:
        model = Person 

License
-------
Copyright (c) 2013 Philip Neustrom <philipn@gmail.com>

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