Create database view from django model

Question

I learned sql \"view\" as a virtual table to facilitate the SQL operations, like

MySQL [distributor]> CREATE VIEW CustomerEMailList AS
    -> SELECT cust_         


        

Answer 1

I created a Django plugin which you can create a view table. You can check it here, on pypi.org

Install with pip install django-view-table and set INSTALLED_APPS like this:

INSTALLED_APPS = [
    'viewtable',
]

And so, a view table model can be written as follows:

from django.db import models
from view_table.models import ViewTable

# Base table
class Book(models.Model):
    name = models.CharField(max_length=100)
    category = models.CharField(max_length=100)


# View table
class Books(ViewTable):
    category = models.CharField(max_length=100)
    count = models.IntegerField()

    @classmethod
    def get_query(self):
        # Select sql statement
        return Book.objects.values('category').annotate(count=models.Count('category')).query

Finally, create the table:

python manage.py createviewtable