Inside my Profile model I have the following function:
It serves to return the fullname of the user (or a alternative if some data is missing).
def full_name(self):
first_name = self.user.first_name.strip()
if first_name and self.user.last_name:
if not self.middle_name:
full_name = u'%s %s' % (first_name, self.user.last_name)
else:
full_name = u'%s %s %s' % (first_name, self.middle_name,
self.user.last_name)
return full_name.strip()
elif first_name:
return first_name
return self.user.username
Now for my question: I have a view where I filter a queryset based on the variable 'q' (that is returned from a searchbox in the template) Like so:
qs = qs.filter(tenant_demo_purchase=True).order_by('-id')
#Search users within results
q = self.request.GET.get('q', None)
if q:
qs = qs.filter(Q(user__username__icontains=q) |
Q(user__first_name__icontains=q) |
Q(user__last_name__icontains=q) |
Q(arrangement_period__arrangement__title__icontains=q) |
).filter(tenant_demo_purchase=True).order_by('-id')
else:
pass
return qs
This filter works fine if I give it a firstname, username, or a last name. But if I give it a firstname + lastname (example: "John Doe") it returns no results.
Most of my users tend to submit the fullname, so as a solution I tried to have it acces the Profile.full_name function. By adding the following line
Q(user__profile__fullname__icontains=q)
However, this crashes with the following error message:
raise FieldError('Related Field got invalid lookup: {}'.format(lookups[0]))
FieldError: Related Field got invalid lookup: fullname
Interistengly, when I look at the django error page it seems to ignore the usernames and fail on the 'arrangement__title' query, ignoring the rest:
Q(arrangement_period__arrangement__title__icontains=q)
I tried doing the obvious:
Q(user__profile.fullname__icontains=q)
But that just throws the following error
SyntaxError: keyword can't be an expression
I just want a way for users to input a full name (firstname + space + lastname) and still have the program return the correct results.
Does anyone know of a way to do this?
Solution
Thanks to Ivan his answer, the following codes provides the desired result:
q = self.request.GET.get('q', None)
if q:
qs = qs.annotate(
full_name=Concat(
'user__first_name',
Value(' '),
'user__last_name',
output_field=CharField()
)
).filter(Q(full_name__icontains=q) |
Q(user__username__icontains=q) |
Q(user__first_name__icontains=q) |
Q(user__last_name__icontains=q) |
Q(arrangement_period__arrangement__title__icontains=q)
).order_by('-id')