I have a custom manager. I want to use it for related objects. I found use_for_related_fields in docs. But it does not work the way I used it:
class RandomQueryset(models.query.QuerySet):
def randomize(self):
count = self.count()
random_index = random.randint(0, count - 1)
return self.all()[random_index]
class RandomManager(models.Manager):
use_for_related_fields = True
def get_query_set(self):
return RandomQueryset(self.model, using=self._db)
def randomize(self):
return self.get_query_set().randomize()
I used it for one model:
>>> post = PostPages.default_manager.filter(image_gallery__isnull=False).distinct().randomize()
And tried to do the same with m2m related object:
>>> post.image_gallery.randomize()
Got an error:
AttributeError: 'ManyRelatedManager' object has no attribute 'randomize'
Is it possible to use a custom manager in the way I did it? If so, how do you make it work?
My models:
class ShivaImage(models.Model, ImageResizing):
image = models.ImageField(upload_to='img')
slide_show = models.BooleanField()
title = models.CharField(max_length=100)
text = models.TextField(max_length=400)
ordering = models.IntegerField(blank=True, null=True)
objects = RandomManager()
class PostPages(models.Model):
image_gallery = models.ManyToManyField(ShivaImage, blank=True,
related_name='gallery',)
# all the other fields...
objects = RandomManager()
For completeness of the topic, Django 1.7 (finally) supports using a custom reverse manager, so you can do something like that (just copying from the django docs):
from django.db import models
class Entry(models.Model):
objects = models.Manager() # Default Manager
entries = EntryManager() # Custom Manager
b = Blog.objects.get(id=1)
b.entry_set(manager='entries').all()