Re: getting objects unique in several ways (annotate?)

On Jun 30, 1:31 am, elliot <offonoffoffon...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Sorry about the vague title.  Its hard for me to summarize this in one
> short sentence.
> Lets say I have two models (using pseudo code):
>
> Book(model.Model):
>   name = charfield()
>
> Transaction(model.Model):
>   start_date = DateTimeField()
>   item = ManytoMany(Book)
>   recipient = CharField()
>
> Now for every book, I want to know the recipient of only the most
> recent transaction.  I can get the start date of the most recent
> transaction for each book with
>
> Book.objects.annotate(mostrecent = Max('transaction__start_date'))
>
> but what I would like is the pk of that transaction, so I can get more
> information about it.  

Sorry no time to find out and provide a working anwser, but anyway:
you may want to read the doc for QuerySet.extra. Also, sometimes it's
just a matter of starting from the other side of the relationship...

HTH

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