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WeekArchiveView

Reference Generic date views

classWeekArchiveView[source] : A weekly archive page showing all objects in a given week. Objects with a date in the future are not displayed unless you set allow_future to True.

DayArchiveView

Reference Generic date views

classDayArchiveView[source] : A day archive page showing all objects in a given day. Days in the future throw a 404 error, regardless of whether any objects exist for future days, unless you set allow_future to True.

BaseDateListView

Reference Date-based mixins

classBaseDateListView[source] : A base class that provides common behavior for all date-based views. There won’t normally be a reason to instantiate BaseDateListView; instantiate one of the subclasses instead.

ModelAdmin options

Reference The Django admin site ModelAdmin objects

The ModelAdmin is very flexible. It has several options for dealing with customizing the interface. All options are defined on the ModelAdmin subclass: ModelAdmin.actions : A list of actions to make available on the change list page.

ModelAdmin methods

Reference The Django admin site ModelAdmin objects

Call super().delete_model() to delete the object using Model.delete(). ModelAdmin.delete_queryset(request,queryset)[source] : The delete_queryset() method is given the HttpRequest and a QuerySet of objects to be deleted. Override this method to customize the deletion process for the “delete selected objects” action.

ModelAdmin methods

Reference The Django admin site ModelAdmin objects

ModelAdmin.get_form(request,obj=None,**kwargs)[source] : Returns a ModelForm class for use in the admin add and change views, see add_view() and change_view(). ModelAdmin.get_formsets_with_inlines(request,obj=None)[source] : Yields (FormSet, InlineModelAdmin) pairs for use in admin add and change views.

ModelAdmin methods

Reference The Django admin site ModelAdmin objects

ModelAdmin.get_queryset(request) : The get_queryset method on a ModelAdmin returns a QuerySet of all model instances that can be edited by the admin site.

ModelAdmin methods

Reference The Django admin site ModelAdmin objects

ModelAdmin.response_delete(request,obj_display,obj_id)[source] : Determines the HttpResponse for the delete_view() stage. ModelAdmin.get_formset_kwargs(request,obj,inline,prefix)[source] : A hook for customizing the keyword arguments passed to the constructor of a formset.

Manager methods

Reference django.contrib.auth User model

classmodels.UserManager : The User model has a custom manager that has the following helper methods (in addition to the methods provided by BaseUserManager):

Reference django.contrib.auth Authentication backends

The following backends are available in django.contrib.auth.backends: classBaseBackend[source] : A base class that provides default implementations for all required methods. By default, it will reject any user and provide no permissions.

Distance

Reference Geographic Database Functions Measurements

… more resource-intensive). In the following example, the distance from the city of Hobart to every other PointField in the AustraliaCity queryset is calculated: NOTE: Because the distance attribute is a > Distance object, you can easily > express the value …

GeoDjango

Reference

… with Raster Fields Spatial Lookups Distance Queries Compatibility Tables GeoDjango Forms API Field arguments Form field classes Form widgets GIS QuerySet API Reference Spatial Lookups Distance Lookups Geographic Database Functions Measurements Relationships Operations Editors Input format Output format Miscellaneous Measurement …

Reference Databases PostgreSQL notesServer-side cursors

Another option is to wrap each QuerySet using server-side cursors in an atomic() block, because it disables autocommit for the duration of the transaction. This way, the server-side cursor will only live for the duration of the transaction.

Extract

Reference Database Functions Date functions

classExtract(expression,lookup_name=None,tzinfo=None,**extra)[source] Extracts a component of a date as a number. Takes an expression representing a DateField, DateTimeField, TimeField, or DurationField and a lookup_name, and returns the part of the date referenced by lookup_name as an IntegerField.

F() expressions

Reference Query Expressions Built-in Expressions

As well as being used in operations on single instances as above, F() can be used with update() to perform bulk updates on a QuerySet.

Expression API

Reference Query Expressions Technical Information

As an example, an expression implementing `NULLS LAST` would change its value to be `NULLS FIRST`. Modifications are only required for expressions that implement sort order like `OrderBy`. This method is called when [`reverse()`](querysets.md#django.db.models.query.QuerySet.reverse) is called on a queryset.

Arguments

Reference Model field reference Relationship fieldsManyToManyField

ForeignKey.limit_choices_to : Sets a limit to the available choices for this field when this field is rendered using a ModelForm or the admin (by default, all objects in the queryset are available to choose).

ordering

Reference Model Meta options Available Meta options

Options.ordering : The default ordering for the object, for use when obtaining lists of objects: NOTE: In GROUP BY queries (for example, > those using values() and annotate()), the > default ordering is not applied.