Django annotation with nested filter

Question

Is it possible to filter within an annotation?

In my mind something like this (which doesn\'t actually work)

Student.objects.all().annotate(Count(\'at

Answer 1

You are correct - django does not allow you to filter the related objects being counted, without also applying the filter to the primary objects, and therefore excluding those primary objects with a no related objects after filtering.

But, in a bit of abstraction leakage, you can count groups by using a values query.

So, I collect the absences in a dictionary, and use that in a loop. Something like this:

# a query for students
students = Students.objects.all()
# a query to count the student attendances, grouped by type.
attendance_counts = Attendence(student__in=students).values('student', 'type').annotate(abs=Count('pk'))
# regroup that into a dictionary {student -> { type -> count }}
from itertools import groupby
attendance_s_t = dict((s, (dict(t, c) for (s, t, c) in g)) for s, g in groupby(attendance_counts, lambda (s, t, c): s))
# then use them efficiently:
for student in students:
    student.absences = attendance_s_t.get(student.pk, {}).get('Excused', 0)