Question

A little background about our specific problem ->

We are trying to build a Q & A site, much like Stackoverflow.
People can come and ask questions and other people reply.

So like SO (https://stackoverflow.com/questions) we have a questions page. Now the problem we’re having is that we have this model :

class Questions(models.Models):   
    user = person
    question = CharField   
    number_of_replies = IntegerField  
    datetime = DateTime

The resultant queryset ( or list ) is determined by a combination of various factors like when it was posted, how many people replied to it, etc.

Since there’s been confusion related to the question i’ll clarify it ->
This is the kind of output I’m looking for :

This is how the final order will be ->

1. Question c posted 10 mins ago, 0 replies
2. Question f posted 1 min ago, 2 replies
3. Question b posted 5 mins ago, 1 reply
   etc.
   so there is no one-dimensional order, the order is a function of various parameters

Answer 1

One way of doing it is by defining a custom manager ->

https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/topics/db/managers/#custom-managers-and-model-inheritance.

You can display the objects in any order you like. You can even return lists and self-defined dictionaries using the custom manager methods.