Re: Prefetching a single item

I agree it's a bit devious, it took me a couple of minutes to figure out it would work for this particular use case.

Ideally there would a kwarg to Prefect that does the limiting automatically, something like:

SELECT train.id, s.* FROM train LATERAL JOIN (
    SELECT * FROM seat WHERE seat.train_id = train.id LIMIT 5
) s ON TRUE
WHERE train.id IN (1,2,3)

Le mercredi 4 mars 2015 16:27:16 UTC-5, cool-RR a écrit :

Thanks Simon! That worked.

I would say it's a bit devious though, and it was nice if there was a method that didn't use `distinct`, which has its own issues. (And can't be used for any number of items other than 1 in this case.) 

On Tue, Mar 3, 2015 at 7:15 AM, Simon Charette <chare...@gmail.com> wrote:

Can your seats be part of multiple trains?

Is there a reason you defined a ManyToMany from Train to Seat instead of a ForeignKey from Seat to Train?

If your schema was defined as the latter the following could probably work (given you only want the first Seat of each Train object):

trains = Train.objects.prefetch_related(first_seats=Seat.objects.order_by('train', 'order').distinct('train'))
for train in trains:
    first_seat = train.first_seats[0]

Else given you've explicitly defined a TrainSeat model to handle the through relationship to store the order:

class TrainSeat(models.Model):
    train = models.ForeignKey(Train, related_name='train_seats')
    seat = models.ForeignKey(Seat)
    order = models.PositiveIntegerField()

trains = Train.objects.prefetch_related(first_train_seats=Prefetch('train_seats', TrainSeat.objects.select_related('seat').order_by('train', 'order').distinct('train'))
for train in trains:
    first_seat = train.first_train_seats[0].seat

Hope it helps.

Simon

Le lundi 2 mars 2015 17:23:29 UTC-5, cool-RR a écrit :

Hi,

Say that I have a model Train and it has a ManyToMany to model Seat. I'm looking at a queryset of Train and I want to do a prefetch_related on it, but I don't want to get all the Seat objects; I want only the first Seat object for each Train object.  Is this possible with prefetch_related and/or Prefetch? How? 

To clarify: My goal here is to save on querysets while still being able to retrieve the first Seat object in each `train.seats`.

Thanks,

Ram.

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