Question

I have the following models —

class UserProfile(models.Model):
    user = models.ForeignKey(User, unique=True)
    ...

class Video(models.Model):
    title = models.CharField(max_length=256)
    uploaded_by = models.ForeignKey('UserProfile')
    ...

I would like to add a COUNT for the number of videos a user has.

Currently, to get the count of a user, I can do profile.video_set.count().

I would like to have an additional column in the UserProfile model so I can just do UserProfile.objects.order_by('video_count'). How would I add this custom row to the model? Thank you.

Answer 1

What you are trying to do does not follow database normalization rules. The way to go is by using an annotation:

UserProfile.objects.annotate(video_count=Count('video')).order_by('-video_count')