django-flexquery

This library aims to provide a new way of declaring reusable QuerySet filtering logic in your Django project, incorporating the DRY principle and maximizing user experience and performance by allowing you to decide between sub-queries and JOINs.

Its strengths are, among others:

• Easy to learn in minutes

• Cleanly integrates with Django’s ORM

• Small code footprint, hard for bugs to hide - ~150 lines of code (LoC)

• 100% test coverage

• Fully documented code, formatted using the excellent Black Code Formatter.

When referencing a related model in a database query, you usually have the choice between using a JOIN (X.objects.filter(y__z=2)) or performing a sub-query (X.objects.filter(y__in=Y.objects.filter(z=2))).

We don’t want to judge which one is better, because that depends on the concrete query and how the database engine in use optimizes it. In many cases, it will hardly make a noticeable difference at all. However, when the amount of data grows, doing queries right can save you and the users of your application several seconds, and that is what django-flexquery is for.

Requirements

Continuous integration ensures compatibility with Python 3.7 + Django 2.2 and 3.0.

Installation

pip install django-flexquery

No changes to your Django settings are required; no INSTALLED_APPS, no MIDDLEWARE_CLASSES.