How to add additional column to Django QuerySet

Question

I have a QuerySet with Books and I would like to add a score field to every Book result.

qs = Book.objects.all()

In raw SQL I woul

Answer 1

If votes possible values are only 1 and -1 you can just sum them using mentioned annotate: Book.objects.annotate(score=Sum('votes__value')).

If there is more possible values you can filter annotation by adding .filter(votes__value__range=(1,1)) to the above query.

If it's more complex you would have to use extra with select.