Question

Given the following model setup (stripped down):

class Object(models.Model):
    name = models.CharField(max_length=255)

class ObjectVersion(models.Model):   
    Cabinet = models.ForeignKey(Object)

Say I had a bunch of ObjectVersion entries that I’d filtered called “filteredObjects”. How would I get the names of those objects into a vector?

Answer 1

You can use either values_list or values. The docs are available on the Django QuerySet API reference here.

>>> ObjectVersion.objects.filter(...).values('Cabinet__name')
[{'Cabinet__name':'foo'}, {'Cabinet__name':'foo2'}, ...]

or

>>> ObjectVersion.objects.filter(...).values_list('Cabinet__name')
[('foo',), ('foo2',), ...]