Troubleshooting “Related Field has invalid lookup: icontains”

Question

I have the following models in models.py:

class ListinoTraduttore(models.Model):
        traduttore = models.ForeignKey(\'Traduttore\', related_name=         


        

Answer 1

This is to (hopefully) simplify the answer.

Don't filter on a ForeignKey field itself!

Change this

search_fields = ['foreinkeyfield']

to (notice TWO underscores)

search_fields = ['foreinkeyfield__name']

name represents the field-name from the table that we have a ForeinKey relationship with.

Hope this helps