Prologue:
This is a question arising often in SO:
We can perform a GROUP BY ... COUNT
or a GROUP BY ... SUM
SQL equivalent queries on Django ORM, with the use of annotate(), values(), the django.db.models
's Count
and Sum
methods respectfully and optionally the order_by() method:
GROUP BY ... COUNT:
from django.db.models import Count
result = Books.objects.values('author')
.order_by('author')
.annotate(count=Count('author'))
Now result contains a dictionary with two keys: author
and count
:
author | count
------------|-------
OneAuthor | 5
OtherAuthor | 2
... | ...
GROUP BY ... SUM:
from django.db.models import Sum
result = Books.objects.values('author')
.order_by('author')
.annotate(total_price=Sum('price'))
Now result contains a dictionary with two columns: author
and total_price
:
author | total_price
------------|-------------
OneAuthor | 100.35
OtherAuthor | 50.00
... | ...