django: __in query lookup doesn't maintain the order in querset

Question

I have ID's in a specific order

>>> album_ids = [24, 15, 25, 19, 11, 26, 27, 28]
>>> albums = Album.objects.filter( id__in=album_ids, published= True )
>>> [album.id for album in albums]
[25, 24, 27, 28, 26, 11, 15, 19]

I need albums in queryset in that order as id's in album_ids. Anyone please tell me how can i maintain the order? or obtain the albums as in album_ids?

Answer 1

Assuming the list of IDs isn't too large, you could convert the QS to a list and sort it in Python:

album_list = list(albums)
album_list.sort(key=lambda album: album_ids.index(album.id))

Answer 2

Since Djnago 1.8 you can do in this way

from django.db.models import Case, When

pk_list = [10, 2, 1]
preserved = Case(*[When(pk=pk, then=pos) for pos, pk in enumerate(pk_list)])
queryset = MyModel.objects.filter(pk__in=pk_list).order_by(preserved)

Answer 3

You can't do it in django via ORM. But it's quite simple to implement by youself:

album_ids = [24, 15, 25, 19, 11, 26, 27, 28]
albums = Album.objects.filter(published=True).in_bulk(album_ids) # this gives us a dict by ID
sorted_albums = [albums[id] for id in albums_ids if id in albums]

Answer 4

You can do it in Django via ORM using the extra QuerySet modifier

>>> album_ids = [24, 15, 25, 19, 11, 26, 27, 28]
>>> albums = Album.objects.filter( id__in=album_ids, published= True
             ).extra(select={'manual': 'FIELD(id,%s)' % ','.join(map(str, album_ids))},
                     order_by=['manual'])