Django explicit `order_by` by ForeignKey field

Hi. So I have some small models:

class Group(models.Model):

    name = models.CharField()

    

    class Meta:

        ordering = ('name',)

class Entity(models.Model):

    name = models.CharField()

    group = models.ForeignKey(Group, null=True)

Now I want to perform a really simple query like this:

SELECT * FROM `app_entity`

WHERE `app_entity`.`name` = 'something'

ORDER_BY `app_entity`.`group_id` ASC;

Note that I really want to order by the field itself with no useless joins or smth else. So I write smth like that:

Entity.objects.filter(name='something').order_by('group')

and django happily makes this query:

SELECT `app_entity`.`id` FROM `app_entity`

LEFT OUTER JOIN `app_group` ON ( `app_entity`.`group_id` = `app_group`.`id` )

WHERE `app_entity`.`name` = 'smth' 

ORDER BY `app_group`.`name` ASC

According to the docs it uses default Group model ordering and this default behaviour makes sense.

And I need this ordering to be set (for admin and some other places).

If I don't set ordering param in Group.Meta - I get what I want: explicit query shown above (1st one).

But as I said I need it. And I just can't get this query easily.

So we have some sort of inconsistant behaviour - I can do the right thing without ordering param and I can't do it with it.

order_by('group_id') doesn't work and raises FieldError.

For now I'm using extra(order_by=['app_entity.group_id']) or even order_by('app_entity.group_id') but it's quite ugly and it's still such a trivial thing that should have a simple and straight ORM solution.

As I think this might be considered as a bug or smth. In django sourses I found some place where field names lile `group_id` work.

For example, `values_list` method. But this behaviour is marked as a hack there.

So the first question is whether do I miss smth and it can be done somehow.

And the second, if not, do I need to submit a ticket for this.

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