Question

I’m trying to assemble a query from values supplied through GET requests, is this at all possible? Here’s an example of what I’m hoping to do:

def kml(request):
    venues = Venue.objects.filter(
        (Q(neighborhood__city__metro__slug=request.GET.get('metro')) if request.GET.get('metro')),
        (Q(neighborhood__slug=request.GET.get('neighborhood')) if request.GET.get('metro'))
    )
    return HttpResponse(venues)

Basically, if I go to foo.com/?metro=nyc it’d return all Venue objects for that Metropolitan Area. If I only supply the neighborhood foo.com/?neighborhood=soho, it’d return all venues for any neighborhood named Soho. Finally, foo.com/?metro=nyc&neighborhood=soho would supply any venue meeting both the Metropolitan Area and Neighborhood criteria.

Is this possible?

ps. Is this essentially what an REST api does? Am I better off trying to use Piston, TastyPie, or Django-REST?

Answer 1

Django query api is chainable, so you can do this:

def kml(request):
    venues = Venue.objects

    if request.GET.get('metro'):
       venues = venues.filter((Q(neighborhood__city__metro__slug=request.GET.get('metro')))

     if request.GET.get('metro')
        venues = venues.filter(Q(neighborhood__slug=request.GET.get('neighborhood')) )

     # and so on...