Django Manager Chaining

Question

I was wondering if it was possible (and, if so, how) to chain together multiple managers to produce a query set that is affected by both of the individual managers. I\'ll expla

Answer 1

Here is the specific solution to my problem using the custom QuerySetManager by Simon that Scott linked to.

from django.db import models
from django.contrib import admin
from django.db.models.query import QuerySet
from django.core.exceptions import FieldError

class MixinManager(models.Manager):    
    def get_query_set(self):
        try:
            return self.model.MixinQuerySet(self.model).filter(deleted=False)
        except FieldError:
            return self.model.MixinQuerySet(self.model)

class BaseMixin(models.Model):
    admin = models.Manager()
    objects = MixinManager()

    class MixinQuerySet(QuerySet):

        def globals(self):
            try:
                return self.filter(is_global=True)
            except FieldError:
                return self.all()

    class Meta:
        abstract = True

class DeleteMixin(BaseMixin):
    deleted = models.BooleanField(default=False)

    class Meta:
        abstract = True

    def delete(self):
        self.deleted = True
        self.save()

class GlobalMixin(BaseMixin):
    is_global = models.BooleanField(default=True)

    class Meta:
        abstract = True

Any mixin in the future that wants to add extra functionality to the query set simply needs to extend BaseMixin (or have it somewhere in its heirarchy). Any time I try to filter the query set down, I wrapped it in a try-catch in case that field doesn't actually exist (ie, it doesn't extend that mixin). The global filter is invoked using globals(), while the delete filter is automatically invoked (if something is deleted, I never want it to show). Using this system allows for the following types of commands:

TemporaryModel.objects.all() # If extending DeleteMixin, no deleted instances are returned
TemporaryModel.objects.all().globals() # Filter out the private instances (non-global)
TemporaryModel.objects.filter(...) # Ditto about excluding deleteds

One thing to note is that the delete filter won't affect admin interfaces, because the default Manager is declared first (making it the default). I don't remember when they changed the admin to use Model._default_manager instead of Model.objects, but any deleted instances will still appear in the admin (in case you need to un-delete them).