Nobody cares? To me this seems like a significant bug in contrib.admin ... okay I'm filing it as such: http://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/7528
- PW On Jun 17, 2:08 pm, Paul Winkler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Bear with me, I'm a Django novice, still reading docs... > > I'm trying to build my first app using django admin (release 0.96), > because it's a good match to the requirements (a quick and simple CRUD > application). > > I found a thread from last > yearhttp://groups.google.com/group/django-users/browse_thread/thread/b086... > where the last post describes the same problem I'm having, but there > were no further replies. > > All was coming along nicely until I started using 'the lookup API > “follow” notation' to get a foreign key into my search_fields, like > this: > > class FilmClip(models.Model): > ... > class Admin: > ... > search_fields = ('clip_id', 'label', 'description', > 'filmcliplog__description' # This is the > line that causes problems > ) > > class FilmClipLog(models.Model): > clip = models.ForeignKey(FilmClip, > edit_inline=models.TABULAR, > num_in_admin=3) > ... > > There are two problems with the resulting behavior: > 1) Any matching FilmClip thas has at least one FilmClipLog will show > up in the results twice. > 2) Any matching FilmClip that has no FilmClipLogs will not show up at > all. > > From the mysql query log, I've found that the query looks like: > > SELECT ... FROM `filmy_filmclip` INNER JOIN `filmy_filmcliplog` ... > > But what I want is this: > > SELECT DISTINCT ... FROM `filmy_filmclip` LEFT OUTER JOIN > `filmy_filmcliplog` ... > > So, my questions: > > 1) Is this a Django bug? When would the existing behavior be > desirable? > > 2) Is there a way to specify the type of join in the search query? > > 3) Is there a way to add DISTINCT to the search query? > > 4) If no, what's the quickest way to get the behavior I want? > > Thanks, > > - PW --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
