python - How to query as GROUP BY in django?

Question

I query a model:

Members.objects.all()

And it returns:

Eric, Salesman, X-Shop
Freddie, Manager, X2-Shop
Teddy, Salesman, X2-Shop
Sean, Manager, X2-Shop

What I want is to know the best Django way to fire a group_by query to my database, like:

Members.objects.all().group_by('designation')

Which doesn't work, of course. I know we can do some tricks on django/db/models/query.py, but I am just curious to know how to do it without patching.

question from:https://stackoverflow.com/questions/65598729/how-to-do-select-product-minprice-from-table-group-by-warehouse-in-django-o

Answer 1

If you mean to do aggregation you can use the aggregation features of the ORM:

from django.db.models import Count
Members.objects.values('designation').annotate(dcount=Count('designation'))

This results in a query similar to

SELECT designation, COUNT(designation) AS dcount
FROM members GROUP BY designation

and the output would be of the form

[{'designation': 'Salesman', 'dcount': 2}, 
 {'designation': 'Manager', 'dcount': 2}]