Question

I have two models defined loosely like this:

class InformationUnit(models.Model):
    username = models.CharField(max_length=255)
    project = models.ForeignKey('Project')
    ...

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

Now, in a view, I want to annotate all the InformationUnits that belong to a project, so I do this:

p = Project.objects.all().annotate(Count('informationunit')

which works just ok.

Furthermore, I want to know, in each project, how many distinct usernames participate.
That is, count how many distinct usernames are there in the InformationUnits that compose one project.
I have tried the following, but it simply counts the number of InformationUnit, regardless of the username:

p = Project.objects.all().annotate(Count('informationunit__username')

Note that username is not an object, it is a string. Is there a clean way to do this or should I create a more complicated code based on loops and spaghetti code 😛

Thanks a lot!

Answer 1

Count can take a distinct argument, like so:

p = Project.objects.all().annotate(Count('informationunit__username', 
                                         distinct=True))

This doesn’t seem to be documented, but you can find it in the source for Count.