Question

I am passing this Django Blog App category system to django-mptt.

The problem I have is about the _get_online_category method.
This method allows me to get only the category having an Entry.

def _get_online_categories(self):
    """
    Returns categories with entries "online" inside.
    Access this through the property ``online_entry_set``.
    """
    from models import Entry
    return Category.objects.filter(entries__status=Entry.STATUS_ONLINE).distinct()

How can I modify it so I will have also categories having categories having an entry ?

For example :

I have Spain > Malaga and Malaga got an Entry with the previous method, I will get only Malaga but not Spain I would like to have both.

Second question :

How to get all entries from a parent category ?

For exemple get Malaga’s post from Spain ?

def _get_online_entries(self):
    """
    Returns entries in this category with status of "online".
    Access this through the property ``online_entry_set``.
    """
    from models import Entry        
    return self.entries.filter(status=Entry.STATUS_ONLINE)

online_entries = property(_get_online_entries)

This returns empty result for Spain.

Answer 1

This looks to be a good solution for the first way :

def _get_online_categories(self):
    """
    Returns categories with entries "online" inside.
    Access this through the property ``online_entry_set``.
    """
    from models import Entry
    queryset =  self.categories.filter(entries__status=Entry.STATUS_ONLINE)

    new_queryset = queryset.none() | queryset
    for obj in queryset:
        new_queryset = new_queryset | obj.get_ancestors()
    return new_queryset

Second question

Something like this will make it :

def _get_online_entries(self):
    """
    Returns entries in this category with status of "online".
    Access this through the property ``online_entry_set``.
    """
    from models import Entry        
    return Entry.objects.filter(status=Entry.STATUS_ONLINE, 
                                category__lft__gte=self.lft, 
                                category__rght__lte=self.rght)

online_entries = property(_get_online_entries)