Re: Add an optional parameter to values() that returns a nested dictionary for foreign keys

2016-08-25 Thread Ian Foote
I think the consensus here is to not add the extra commit, so I've 
closed the ticket as wontfix. 
(https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/16735#comment:26)


Ian

On 20/08/16 15:24, Josh Smeaton wrote:
Just as an additional data point - most expressions that accept 
strings internally convert them to F(), so it's not entirely 
inconsistent with other behaviour. I don't really have a preference 
here though, so happy to go with what the majority prefer.


On Saturday, 20 August 2016 04:59:10 UTC+10, Loïc Bistuer wrote:

I prefer enforcing .values(alias=F(’something’)), to me
.values(alias=‘something’) reads as the equivalent of
.values(alias=Value(‘something’)).

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> On Aug 20, 2016, at 1:04 AM, Tim Graham > wrote:
>
> We now have support for expressions in values()/values_list() --
thanks Ian! With the new commit [0], aliases can be created like
this: .values(alias=F('field'))
>
> Ian has offered an additional commit in the pull request [1] to
allow .values(alias='field') (without the F() expression) to
automatically wrap the string in an F() expression to create an
alias. I'm not sure whether or not to accept that patch as I think
I prefer the look of the explicit F() rather than magically
treating strings as F() expressions. What do you think?
>
> [0]

https://github.com/django/django/commit/39f35d4b9de223b72c67bb1d12e65669b4e1355b



> [1] https://github.com/django/django/pull/7088

>
> On Wednesday, November 25, 2015 at 7:24:22 PM UTC-5, Josh
Smeaton wrote:
> I would really like two things for values to support.
>
> 1. Aliases .values(alias='field');
> 2. Expressions .values(alias=F('field'))
>
> I think these two features are absolute must haves, and the
syntaxes above are already standard in other parts of the ORM.
>
> If someone can come up with a way to support nested relations
while supporting the above syntax, then I'd be OK with that. But
at the moment, I'm firmly in the "this is the responsibility of a
serialiser" camp. I'm not convinced Django needs to support nested
objects at all. Is this something you could implement with your
own queryset method on a manager? Is this maybe something we could
look at creating a new queryset method called .values_dict() ?
>
> If it weren't for backwards compatibility, I'd suggest that
referencing the related object would automatically nest that
object. That would differentiate between the id and the field
values('related_id', 'related') -> '{"related_id": 1, "related":
{"id": 1, ..}}'.
>
> If there's (rough) consensus on having nested objects, then we
could allow something like: .values(..., ..., nested=('related',
'related__otherrelated')). If the value of nested is an iterable
then assume we're nesting, otherwise nested is an alias for the
field. I don't particularly like overloaded kwargs, but we're just
guarding against someone wanting to alias as "nested" which we
could call out in docs anyway.
>
> The more I think about this the more I think nesting and aliases
within a nest should probably be done in a different queryset
method. Or just handled by a serialiser. If you want more requests
per second, then add some more backends.
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Re: Add an optional parameter to values() that returns a nested dictionary for foreign keys

2016-08-20 Thread Артём Клименко
may be useful https://github.com/aklim007/DjangoNestedValues

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Re: Add an optional parameter to values() that returns a nested dictionary for foreign keys

2016-08-19 Thread Josh Smeaton
Just as an additional data point - most expressions that accept strings 
internally convert them to F(), so it's not entirely inconsistent with 
other behaviour. I don't really have a preference here though, so happy to 
go with what the majority prefer.

On Saturday, 20 August 2016 04:59:10 UTC+10, Loïc Bistuer wrote:
>
> I prefer enforcing .values(alias=F(’something’)), to me 
> .values(alias=‘something’) reads as the equivalent of 
> .values(alias=Value(‘something’)). 
>
> -- 
> Loïc 
>
> > On Aug 20, 2016, at 1:04 AM, Tim Graham  > wrote: 
> > 
> > We now have support for expressions in values()/values_list() -- thanks 
> Ian! With the new commit [0], aliases can be created like this: 
> .values(alias=F('field')) 
> > 
> > Ian has offered an additional commit in the pull request [1] to allow 
> .values(alias='field') (without the F() expression) to automatically wrap 
> the string in an F() expression to create an alias. I'm not sure whether or 
> not to accept that patch as I think I prefer the look of the explicit F() 
> rather than magically treating strings as F() expressions. What do you 
> think? 
> > 
> > [0] 
> https://github.com/django/django/commit/39f35d4b9de223b72c67bb1d12e65669b4e1355b
>  
> > [1] https://github.com/django/django/pull/7088 
> > 
> > On Wednesday, November 25, 2015 at 7:24:22 PM UTC-5, Josh Smeaton wrote: 
> > I would really like two things for values to support. 
> > 
> > 1. Aliases .values(alias='field'); 
> > 2. Expressions .values(alias=F('field')) 
> > 
> > I think these two features are absolute must haves, and the syntaxes 
> above are already standard in other parts of the ORM. 
> > 
> > If someone can come up with a way to support nested relations while 
> supporting the above syntax, then I'd be OK with that. But at the moment, 
> I'm firmly in the "this is the responsibility of a serialiser" camp. I'm 
> not convinced Django needs to support nested objects at all. Is this 
> something you could implement with your own queryset method on a manager? 
> Is this maybe something we could look at creating a new queryset method 
> called .values_dict() ? 
> > 
> > If it weren't for backwards compatibility, I'd suggest that referencing 
> the related object would automatically nest that object. That would 
> differentiate between the id and the field values('related_id', 'related') 
> -> '{"related_id": 1, "related": {"id": 1, ..}}'. 
> > 
> > If there's (rough) consensus on having nested objects, then we could 
> allow something like: .values(..., ..., nested=('related', 
> 'related__otherrelated')). If the value of nested is an iterable then 
> assume we're nesting, otherwise nested is an alias for the field. I don't 
> particularly like overloaded kwargs, but we're just guarding against 
> someone wanting to alias as "nested" which we could call out in docs 
> anyway. 
> > 
> > The more I think about this the more I think nesting and aliases within 
> a nest should probably be done in a different queryset method. Or just 
> handled by a serialiser. If you want more requests per second, then add 
> some more backends. 
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Re: Add an optional parameter to values() that returns a nested dictionary for foreign keys

2016-08-19 Thread Constantine Covtushenko
Agree with Loïc on 100%.
And also it opens more options in the future.

Regards,

On Fri, Aug 19, 2016 at 9:58 PM, Loïc Bistuer 
wrote:

> I prefer enforcing .values(alias=F(’something’)), to me
> .values(alias=‘something’) reads as the equivalent of .values(alias=Value(‘
> something’)).
>
> --
> Loïc
>
> > On Aug 20, 2016, at 1:04 AM, Tim Graham  wrote:
> >
> > We now have support for expressions in values()/values_list() -- thanks
> Ian! With the new commit [0], aliases can be created like this:
> .values(alias=F('field'))
> >
> > Ian has offered an additional commit in the pull request [1] to allow
> .values(alias='field') (without the F() expression) to automatically wrap
> the string in an F() expression to create an alias. I'm not sure whether or
> not to accept that patch as I think I prefer the look of the explicit F()
> rather than magically treating strings as F() expressions. What do you
> think?
> >
> > [0] https://github.com/django/django/commit/
> 39f35d4b9de223b72c67bb1d12e65669b4e1355b
> > [1] https://github.com/django/django/pull/7088
> >
> > On Wednesday, November 25, 2015 at 7:24:22 PM UTC-5, Josh Smeaton wrote:
> > I would really like two things for values to support.
> >
> > 1. Aliases .values(alias='field');
> > 2. Expressions .values(alias=F('field'))
> >
> > I think these two features are absolute must haves, and the syntaxes
> above are already standard in other parts of the ORM.
> >
> > If someone can come up with a way to support nested relations while
> supporting the above syntax, then I'd be OK with that. But at the moment,
> I'm firmly in the "this is the responsibility of a serialiser" camp. I'm
> not convinced Django needs to support nested objects at all. Is this
> something you could implement with your own queryset method on a manager?
> Is this maybe something we could look at creating a new queryset method
> called .values_dict() ?
> >
> > If it weren't for backwards compatibility, I'd suggest that referencing
> the related object would automatically nest that object. That would
> differentiate between the id and the field values('related_id', 'related')
> -> '{"related_id": 1, "related": {"id": 1, ..}}'.
> >
> > If there's (rough) consensus on having nested objects, then we could
> allow something like: .values(..., ..., nested=('related',
> 'related__otherrelated')). If the value of nested is an iterable then
> assume we're nesting, otherwise nested is an alias for the field. I don't
> particularly like overloaded kwargs, but we're just guarding against
> someone wanting to alias as "nested" which we could call out in docs anyway.
> >
> > The more I think about this the more I think nesting and aliases within
> a nest should probably be done in a different queryset method. Or just
> handled by a serialiser. If you want more requests per second, then add
> some more backends.
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Re: Add an optional parameter to values() that returns a nested dictionary for foreign keys

2016-08-19 Thread Loïc Bistuer
I prefer enforcing .values(alias=F(’something’)), to me 
.values(alias=‘something’) reads as the equivalent of 
.values(alias=Value(‘something’)).

-- 
Loïc

> On Aug 20, 2016, at 1:04 AM, Tim Graham  wrote:
> 
> We now have support for expressions in values()/values_list() -- thanks Ian! 
> With the new commit [0], aliases can be created like this: 
> .values(alias=F('field'))
> 
> Ian has offered an additional commit in the pull request [1] to allow 
> .values(alias='field') (without the F() expression) to automatically wrap the 
> string in an F() expression to create an alias. I'm not sure whether or not 
> to accept that patch as I think I prefer the look of the explicit F() rather 
> than magically treating strings as F() expressions. What do you think?
> 
> [0] 
> https://github.com/django/django/commit/39f35d4b9de223b72c67bb1d12e65669b4e1355b
> [1] https://github.com/django/django/pull/7088
> 
> On Wednesday, November 25, 2015 at 7:24:22 PM UTC-5, Josh Smeaton wrote:
> I would really like two things for values to support.
> 
> 1. Aliases .values(alias='field');
> 2. Expressions .values(alias=F('field'))
> 
> I think these two features are absolute must haves, and the syntaxes above 
> are already standard in other parts of the ORM.
> 
> If someone can come up with a way to support nested relations while 
> supporting the above syntax, then I'd be OK with that. But at the moment, I'm 
> firmly in the "this is the responsibility of a serialiser" camp. I'm not 
> convinced Django needs to support nested objects at all. Is this something 
> you could implement with your own queryset method on a manager? Is this maybe 
> something we could look at creating a new queryset method called 
> .values_dict() ?
> 
> If it weren't for backwards compatibility, I'd suggest that referencing the 
> related object would automatically nest that object. That would differentiate 
> between the id and the field values('related_id', 'related') -> 
> '{"related_id": 1, "related": {"id": 1, ..}}'.
> 
> If there's (rough) consensus on having nested objects, then we could allow 
> something like: .values(..., ..., nested=('related', 
> 'related__otherrelated')). If the value of nested is an iterable then assume 
> we're nesting, otherwise nested is an alias for the field. I don't 
> particularly like overloaded kwargs, but we're just guarding against someone 
> wanting to alias as "nested" which we could call out in docs anyway.
> 
> The more I think about this the more I think nesting and aliases within a 
> nest should probably be done in a different queryset method. Or just handled 
> by a serialiser. If you want more requests per second, then add some more 
> backends.
> 
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Re: Add an optional parameter to values() that returns a nested dictionary for foreign keys

2016-08-19 Thread Tim Graham
We now have support for expressions in values()/values_list() -- thanks 
Ian! With the new commit [0], aliases can be created like this: 
.values(alias=F('field'))

Ian has offered an additional commit in the pull request [1] to allow 
.values(alias='field') (without the F() expression) to automatically wrap 
the string in an F() expression to create an alias. I'm not sure whether or 
not to accept that patch as I think I prefer the look of the explicit F() 
rather than magically treating strings as F() expressions. What do you 
think?

[0] 
https://github.com/django/django/commit/39f35d4b9de223b72c67bb1d12e65669b4e1355b
[1] https://github.com/django/django/pull/7088

On Wednesday, November 25, 2015 at 7:24:22 PM UTC-5, Josh Smeaton wrote:
>
> I would really like two things for values to support.
>
> 1. Aliases .values(alias='field');
> 2. Expressions .values(alias=F('field'))
>
> I think these two features are absolute must haves, and the syntaxes above 
> are already standard in other parts of the ORM.
>
> If someone can come up with a way to support nested relations while 
> supporting the above syntax, then I'd be OK with that. But at the moment, 
> I'm firmly in the "this is the responsibility of a serialiser" camp. I'm 
> not convinced Django needs to support nested objects at all. Is this 
> something you could implement with your own queryset method on a manager? 
> Is this maybe something we could look at creating a new queryset method 
> called .values_dict() ?
>
> If it weren't for backwards compatibility, I'd suggest that referencing 
> the related object would automatically nest that object. That would 
> differentiate between the id and the field values('related_id', 'related') 
> -> '{"related_id": 1, "related": {"id": 1, ..}}'.
>
> If there's (rough) consensus on having nested objects, then we could allow 
> something like: .values(..., ..., nested=('related', 
> 'related__otherrelated')). If the value of nested is an iterable then 
> assume we're nesting, otherwise nested is an alias for the field. I don't 
> particularly like overloaded kwargs, but we're just guarding against 
> someone wanting to alias as "nested" which we could call out in docs anyway.
>
> The more I think about this the more I think nesting and aliases within a 
> nest should probably be done in a different queryset method. Or just 
> handled by a serialiser. If you want more requests per second, then add 
> some more backends.
>

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Re: Add an optional parameter to values() that returns a nested dictionary for foreign keys

2015-11-25 Thread Josh Smeaton
I would really like two things for values to support.

1. Aliases .values(alias='field');
2. Expressions .values(alias=F('field'))

I think these two features are absolute must haves, and the syntaxes above 
are already standard in other parts of the ORM.

If someone can come up with a way to support nested relations while 
supporting the above syntax, then I'd be OK with that. But at the moment, 
I'm firmly in the "this is the responsibility of a serialiser" camp. I'm 
not convinced Django needs to support nested objects at all. Is this 
something you could implement with your own queryset method on a manager? 
Is this maybe something we could look at creating a new queryset method 
called .values_dict() ?

If it weren't for backwards compatibility, I'd suggest that referencing the 
related object would automatically nest that object. That would 
differentiate between the id and the field values('related_id', 'related') 
-> '{"related_id": 1, "related": {"id": 1, ..}}'.

If there's (rough) consensus on having nested objects, then we could allow 
something like: .values(..., ..., nested=('related', 
'related__otherrelated')). If the value of nested is an iterable then 
assume we're nesting, otherwise nested is an alias for the field. I don't 
particularly like overloaded kwargs, but we're just guarding against 
someone wanting to alias as "nested" which we could call out in docs anyway.

The more I think about this the more I think nesting and aliases within a 
nest should probably be done in a different queryset method. Or just 
handled by a serialiser. If you want more requests per second, then add 
some more backends.

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Re: Add an optional parameter to values() that returns a nested dictionary for foreign keys

2015-11-25 Thread Shai Berger
On Wednesday 25 November 2015 20:34:11 Marc Tamlyn wrote:
> I can see a use for this, but the API is unsure. Given that from a
> performance point of view it should be possible to do this as a transform
> after a values query (in most cases using a similar lazy sequence-like
> object will maintain the performance you need), can I propose implementing
> it as an external app to find a good API. Once this has been done, we can
> look at how buildable that API is at a lower level to get the maximum
> performance.
> 

That sounds like a good plan to me.

I would just like to add that, since we're talking about values() queries 
where no model instances are constructed, one possible API is to have just a 
single boolean `nested` argument, where the selection of which FKs to expand 
is implied by select_related() calls.

Shai.


Re: Add an optional parameter to values() that returns a nested dictionary for foreign keys

2015-11-25 Thread Marc Tamlyn
I can see a use for this, but the API is unsure. Given that from a
performance point of view it should be possible to do this as a transform
after a values query (in most cases using a similar lazy sequence-like
object will maintain the performance you need), can I propose implementing
it as an external app to find a good API. Once this has been done, we can
look at how buildable that API is at a lower level to get the maximum
performance.

On 25 November 2015 at 18:21, Moenad  wrote:

> I think I wasn't clear from the beginning, the idea of "nested" is to nest
> all possible levels, not just a single level. I like the idea of "N", given
> that you can have more control, but having something like N("person",
> "person__hometown", "person__hometown__country") which will be different
> than N("person__hometown__country") is confusing.
>
> I have another idea, why not make the alias + nest possible with a single
> parameter, where it takes a dictionary and expect how the final structure
> and aliasing are?
>
> For example:
>
> {"id": "custom_id"
>  "first_name": "custom_first_name",
>  "last_name": "custom_last_name",
>  "hometown": {
>   "__alias__": "custom_hometown"
>   "id": "custom_hometown_id",
>   "name": "custom_name",
>   "country": "custom_country"
>   }
> }
>
> or to make it a standard in someway,
>
> {"id": "custom_id"
>  "first_name": "custom_first_name",
>  "last_name": "custom_last_name",
>  "hometown": {
>   "__alias__": "custom_hometown"
>   "hometown__id": "custom_hometown_id",
>   "hometown__name": "custom_name",
>   "hometown__country": "custom_country"
>   }
> }
>
> as you noticed, if there's a foreign key for example, a new key
> "__alias__" or something should be added in the dict. Also, no need for
> values() *args, the dict structure would be more than enough?
>
>
> On Wednesday, November 25, 2015 at 7:21:43 PM UTC+2, Joachim Jablon wrote:
>>
>> Marten's suggestion is quite interesting for providing a way to tell
>> which data you want nested and which data you don't. Plus, this form
>> might be interesting to solve another problem : how would Django know if we
>> want :
>>
>> {"id": 1
>>  "first_name": "first name",
>>  "last_name": "last name",
>>  "hometown": {
>>   "id": 1,
>>   "name": "town name",
>>   "country": 3
>>   }
>> }
>>
>>
>> # or
>>
>>
>> {"id": 1
>>  "first_name": "first name",
>>  "last_name": "last name",
>>  "hometown": {
>>   "id": 1,
>>   "name": "town name",
>>   "country": {
>> "id": 3,
>> "name": "country name"
>>   }
>>   }
>> }
>>
>>
>>
>> Limiting the nesting to a single level would be an arbitrary decision and
>> users should be able to control this (IMHO)
>>
>> So we could have a "level" argument that would say how many levels deep
>> it will search but then what if you want SOME nesting in some branches, not
>> in others, like :
>>
>> {"id": 1
>>  "first_name": "first name",
>>  "last_name": "last name",
>>  "hometown": {
>>   "id": 1,
>>   "name": "town name",
>>   "country": {
>> "id": 3,
>> "name": "country name"
>>   }
>>   },
>>   "father": 4
>> }
>>
>>
>> (here, "father" is another FK that we don't want expanded ?
>>
>> Maybe a syntax like :
>>
>> N("person", "person__hometown", "person__hometown__country")
>> Note : this might not be equivalent to N("person__hometown__country"),
>> that you could use if you want ONLY the nested "country"
>>
>> I'd like that.
>>
>> And it's compatible with the suggestion of using **kwargs for aliasing
>> (for the top level element of the dict, at least)
>>
>> Le mercredi 25 novembre 2015 17:53:25 UTC+1, Marten Kenbeek a écrit :
>>>
>>> I think it'd be more consistent with other parts of the ORM to use
>>> **kwargs to specify aliases. For nested data you can use an object, say N,
>>> similar to Q and F objects:
>>>
>>> Articles.objects.filter(id=1).values('body', N('author'),
>>> my_custom_title='title')
>>>
>>> I'm no ORM expert, but could something like this be possible by allowing
>>> expressions in values() and using custom output fields?
>>>
>>> On Wednesday, November 25, 2015 at 5:09:29 PM UTC+1, Moenad wrote:

 Well, switch the field name aliasing to a dictionary without hijacking
 **kwargs ?

 I prefer the following:

 Articles.objects.get(id=1).values(’title’, ’author’, ‘body',
 alias={"title": "my_custom_title"}, nested=True)


 On Wednesday, November 25, 2015 at 5:43:51 PM UTC+2, Tim Graham wrote:
>
> There's an accepted ticket for adding aliasing to values():
> https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/16735
>
> The current patch there hijacks values() **kwargs for the mapping of
> renamed fields which would prevent adding other kwargs like "nested"
> without disallowing those values as aliases. I guess we may want to 
> rethink
> that approach.
>
> On Wednesday, November 25, 2015 at 10:20:37 AM UTC-5, Bobby Mozumd

Re: Add an optional parameter to values() that returns a nested dictionary for foreign keys

2015-11-25 Thread Moenad
I think I wasn't clear from the beginning, the idea of "nested" is to nest 
all possible levels, not just a single level. I like the idea of "N", given 
that you can have more control, but having something like N("person", 
"person__hometown", "person__hometown__country") which will be different 
than N("person__hometown__country") is confusing.

I have another idea, why not make the alias + nest possible with a single 
parameter, where it takes a dictionary and expect how the final structure 
and aliasing are?

For example:

{"id": "custom_id"
 "first_name": "custom_first_name",
 "last_name": "custom_last_name",
 "hometown": {
  "__alias__": "custom_hometown"
  "id": "custom_hometown_id",
  "name": "custom_name",
  "country": "custom_country"
  }
}

or to make it a standard in someway,

{"id": "custom_id"
 "first_name": "custom_first_name",
 "last_name": "custom_last_name",
 "hometown": {
  "__alias__": "custom_hometown"
  "hometown__id": "custom_hometown_id",
  "hometown__name": "custom_name",
  "hometown__country": "custom_country"
  }
}

as you noticed, if there's a foreign key for example, a new key "__alias__" 
or something should be added in the dict. Also, no need for values() *args, 
the dict structure would be more than enough?


On Wednesday, November 25, 2015 at 7:21:43 PM UTC+2, Joachim Jablon wrote:
>
> Marten's suggestion is quite interesting for providing a way to tell which 
> data you want nested and which data you don't. Plus, this form might be 
> interesting to solve another problem : how would Django know if we want :
>
> {"id": 1
>  "first_name": "first name",
>  "last_name": "last name",
>  "hometown": {
>   "id": 1,
>   "name": "town name",
>   "country": 3
>   }
> }
>
>
> # or
>
>
> {"id": 1
>  "first_name": "first name",
>  "last_name": "last name",
>  "hometown": {
>   "id": 1,
>   "name": "town name",
>   "country": {
> "id": 3,
> "name": "country name"
>   }
>   }
> }
>
>
>
> Limiting the nesting to a single level would be an arbitrary decision and 
> users should be able to control this (IMHO)
>
> So we could have a "level" argument that would say how many levels deep it 
> will search but then what if you want SOME nesting in some branches, not in 
> others, like : 
>
> {"id": 1
>  "first_name": "first name",
>  "last_name": "last name",
>  "hometown": {
>   "id": 1,
>   "name": "town name",
>   "country": {
> "id": 3,
> "name": "country name"
>   }
>   },
>   "father": 4
> }
>
>
> (here, "father" is another FK that we don't want expanded ?
>
> Maybe a syntax like :
>
> N("person", "person__hometown", "person__hometown__country")
> Note : this might not be equivalent to N("person__hometown__country"), 
> that you could use if you want ONLY the nested "country"
>
> I'd like that.
>
> And it's compatible with the suggestion of using **kwargs for aliasing 
> (for the top level element of the dict, at least)
>
> Le mercredi 25 novembre 2015 17:53:25 UTC+1, Marten Kenbeek a écrit :
>>
>> I think it'd be more consistent with other parts of the ORM to use 
>> **kwargs to specify aliases. For nested data you can use an object, say N, 
>> similar to Q and F objects:
>>
>> Articles.objects.filter(id=1).values('body', N('author'), my_custom_title
>> ='title')
>>
>> I'm no ORM expert, but could something like this be possible by allowing 
>> expressions in values() and using custom output fields?
>>
>> On Wednesday, November 25, 2015 at 5:09:29 PM UTC+1, Moenad wrote:
>>>
>>> Well, switch the field name aliasing to a dictionary without hijacking 
>>> **kwargs ?
>>>
>>> I prefer the following:
>>>
>>> Articles.objects.get(id=1).values(’title’, ’author’, ‘body', 
>>> alias={"title": "my_custom_title"}, nested=True)
>>>
>>>
>>> On Wednesday, November 25, 2015 at 5:43:51 PM UTC+2, Tim Graham wrote:

 There's an accepted ticket for adding aliasing to values(): 
 https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/16735

 The current patch there hijacks values() **kwargs for the mapping of 
 renamed fields which would prevent adding other kwargs like "nested" 
 without disallowing those values as aliases. I guess we may want to 
 rethink 
 that approach.

 On Wednesday, November 25, 2015 at 10:20:37 AM UTC-5, Bobby Mozumder 
 wrote:
>
> I could also use a couple of enhancement to this:
>
> 1) Allow renaming of keys, instead of using the database column names. 
>  
> 2) Allow callbacks functions (or lambdas) to convert output values to 
> another format if needed.
>
> With this, I could send the queries results right to JSON outputs.
>
> -bobby
>
> On Nov 25, 2015, at 9:05 AM, Moenad  wrote:
>
> Currently, after calling values() and the query executes, the output 
> is a single level dictionary, including foreign keys. I propose adding an 
> extra parameter for values, or at least values

Re: Add an optional parameter to values() that returns a nested dictionary for foreign keys

2015-11-25 Thread Joachim Jablon
Marten's suggestion is quite interesting for providing a way to tell which 
data you want nested and which data you don't. Plus, this form might be 
interesting to solve another problem : how would Django know if we want :

{"id": 1
 "first_name": "first name",
 "last_name": "last name",
 "hometown": {
  "id": 1,
  "name": "town name",
  "country": 3
  }
}


# or


{"id": 1
 "first_name": "first name",
 "last_name": "last name",
 "hometown": {
  "id": 1,
  "name": "town name",
  "country": {
"id": 3,
"name": "country name"
  }
  }
}



Limiting the nesting to a single level would be an arbitrary decision and 
users should be able to control this (IMHO)

So we could have a "level" argument that would say how many levels deep it 
will search but then what if you want SOME nesting in some branches, not in 
others, like : 

{"id": 1
 "first_name": "first name",
 "last_name": "last name",
 "hometown": {
  "id": 1,
  "name": "town name",
  "country": {
"id": 3,
"name": "country name"
  }
  },
  "father": 4
}


(here, "father" is another FK that we don't want expanded ?

Maybe a syntax like :

N("person", "person__hometown", "person__hometown__country")
Note : this might not be equivalent to N("person__hometown__country"), that 
you could use if you want ONLY the nested "country"

I'd like that.

And it's compatible with the suggestion of using **kwargs for aliasing (for 
the top level element of the dict, at least)

Le mercredi 25 novembre 2015 17:53:25 UTC+1, Marten Kenbeek a écrit :
>
> I think it'd be more consistent with other parts of the ORM to use 
> **kwargs to specify aliases. For nested data you can use an object, say N, 
> similar to Q and F objects:
>
> Articles.objects.filter(id=1).values('body', N('author'), my_custom_title=
> 'title')
>
> I'm no ORM expert, but could something like this be possible by allowing 
> expressions in values() and using custom output fields?
>
> On Wednesday, November 25, 2015 at 5:09:29 PM UTC+1, Moenad wrote:
>>
>> Well, switch the field name aliasing to a dictionary without hijacking 
>> **kwargs ?
>>
>> I prefer the following:
>>
>> Articles.objects.get(id=1).values(’title’, ’author’, ‘body', 
>> alias={"title": "my_custom_title"}, nested=True)
>>
>>
>> On Wednesday, November 25, 2015 at 5:43:51 PM UTC+2, Tim Graham wrote:
>>>
>>> There's an accepted ticket for adding aliasing to values(): 
>>> https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/16735
>>>
>>> The current patch there hijacks values() **kwargs for the mapping of 
>>> renamed fields which would prevent adding other kwargs like "nested" 
>>> without disallowing those values as aliases. I guess we may want to rethink 
>>> that approach.
>>>
>>> On Wednesday, November 25, 2015 at 10:20:37 AM UTC-5, Bobby Mozumder 
>>> wrote:

 I could also use a couple of enhancement to this:

 1) Allow renaming of keys, instead of using the database column names.  
 2) Allow callbacks functions (or lambdas) to convert output values to 
 another format if needed.

 With this, I could send the queries results right to JSON outputs.

 -bobby

 On Nov 25, 2015, at 9:05 AM, Moenad  wrote:

 Currently, after calling values() and the query executes, the output is 
 a single level dictionary, including foreign keys. I propose adding an 
 extra parameter for values, or at least values_list, where if it's set to 
 true, a nested dictionary will be returned when there's a foreign key.

 Example:

 Person model with the following fields: first_name, last_name and 
 hometown (foreign key)
 Hometown model with the following fields: name

 A single record from Person.objects.values() will looks like this

 {"id": 1
  "first_name": "first name",
  "last_name": "last name",
  "hometown__id": 1,
  "hometown__name": "town name",
 }


 I propose adding a nested optional parameter to values, where a single 
 record from Person.objects.values(nested=True) will look like

 {"id": 1
  "first_name": "first name",
  "last_name": "last name",
  "hometown": {
   "id": 1,
   "name": "town name"
   }
 }


 This feature is needed given that most APIs these days are nested, 
 while it's simple to implement, I think it's much better to have it a 
 built-in django feature.


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Re: Add an optional parameter to values() that returns a nested dictionary for foreign keys

2015-11-25 Thread Moenad
I like the idea but what about multiple nesting, multiple foreign keys?

We end up with something like N('author__book')? a bit confusing no?

On Wednesday, November 25, 2015 at 6:53:25 PM UTC+2, Marten Kenbeek wrote:
>
> I think it'd be more consistent with other parts of the ORM to use 
> **kwargs to specify aliases. For nested data you can use an object, say N, 
> similar to Q and F objects:
>
> Articles.objects.filter(id=1).values('body', N('author'), my_custom_title=
> 'title')
>
> I'm no ORM expert, but could something like this be possible by allowing 
> expressions in values() and using custom output fields?
>
> On Wednesday, November 25, 2015 at 5:09:29 PM UTC+1, Moenad wrote:
>>
>> Well, switch the field name aliasing to a dictionary without hijacking 
>> **kwargs ?
>>
>> I prefer the following:
>>
>> Articles.objects.get(id=1).values(’title’, ’author’, ‘body', 
>> alias={"title": "my_custom_title"}, nested=True)
>>
>>
>> On Wednesday, November 25, 2015 at 5:43:51 PM UTC+2, Tim Graham wrote:
>>>
>>> There's an accepted ticket for adding aliasing to values(): 
>>> https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/16735
>>>
>>> The current patch there hijacks values() **kwargs for the mapping of 
>>> renamed fields which would prevent adding other kwargs like "nested" 
>>> without disallowing those values as aliases. I guess we may want to rethink 
>>> that approach.
>>>
>>> On Wednesday, November 25, 2015 at 10:20:37 AM UTC-5, Bobby Mozumder 
>>> wrote:

 I could also use a couple of enhancement to this:

 1) Allow renaming of keys, instead of using the database column names.  
 2) Allow callbacks functions (or lambdas) to convert output values to 
 another format if needed.

 With this, I could send the queries results right to JSON outputs.

 -bobby

 On Nov 25, 2015, at 9:05 AM, Moenad  wrote:

 Currently, after calling values() and the query executes, the output is 
 a single level dictionary, including foreign keys. I propose adding an 
 extra parameter for values, or at least values_list, where if it's set to 
 true, a nested dictionary will be returned when there's a foreign key.

 Example:

 Person model with the following fields: first_name, last_name and 
 hometown (foreign key)
 Hometown model with the following fields: name

 A single record from Person.objects.values() will looks like this

 {"id": 1
  "first_name": "first name",
  "last_name": "last name",
  "hometown__id": 1,
  "hometown__name": "town name",
 }


 I propose adding a nested optional parameter to values, where a single 
 record from Person.objects.values(nested=True) will look like

 {"id": 1
  "first_name": "first name",
  "last_name": "last name",
  "hometown": {
   "id": 1,
   "name": "town name"
   }
 }


 This feature is needed given that most APIs these days are nested, 
 while it's simple to implement, I think it's much better to have it a 
 built-in django feature.


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Re: Add an optional parameter to values() that returns a nested dictionary for foreign keys

2015-11-25 Thread Marten Kenbeek
I think it'd be more consistent with other parts of the ORM to use **kwargs 
to specify aliases. For nested data you can use an object, say N, similar 
to Q and F objects:

Articles.objects.filter(id=1).values('body', N('author'), my_custom_title=
'title')

I'm no ORM expert, but could something like this be possible by allowing 
expressions in values() and using custom output fields?

On Wednesday, November 25, 2015 at 5:09:29 PM UTC+1, Moenad wrote:
>
> Well, switch the field name aliasing to a dictionary without hijacking 
> **kwargs ?
>
> I prefer the following:
>
> Articles.objects.get(id=1).values(’title’, ’author’, ‘body', 
> alias={"title": "my_custom_title"}, nested=True)
>
>
> On Wednesday, November 25, 2015 at 5:43:51 PM UTC+2, Tim Graham wrote:
>>
>> There's an accepted ticket for adding aliasing to values(): 
>> https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/16735
>>
>> The current patch there hijacks values() **kwargs for the mapping of 
>> renamed fields which would prevent adding other kwargs like "nested" 
>> without disallowing those values as aliases. I guess we may want to rethink 
>> that approach.
>>
>> On Wednesday, November 25, 2015 at 10:20:37 AM UTC-5, Bobby Mozumder 
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> I could also use a couple of enhancement to this:
>>>
>>> 1) Allow renaming of keys, instead of using the database column names.  
>>> 2) Allow callbacks functions (or lambdas) to convert output values to 
>>> another format if needed.
>>>
>>> With this, I could send the queries results right to JSON outputs.
>>>
>>> -bobby
>>>
>>> On Nov 25, 2015, at 9:05 AM, Moenad  wrote:
>>>
>>> Currently, after calling values() and the query executes, the output is 
>>> a single level dictionary, including foreign keys. I propose adding an 
>>> extra parameter for values, or at least values_list, where if it's set to 
>>> true, a nested dictionary will be returned when there's a foreign key.
>>>
>>> Example:
>>>
>>> Person model with the following fields: first_name, last_name and 
>>> hometown (foreign key)
>>> Hometown model with the following fields: name
>>>
>>> A single record from Person.objects.values() will looks like this
>>>
>>> {"id": 1
>>>  "first_name": "first name",
>>>  "last_name": "last name",
>>>  "hometown__id": 1,
>>>  "hometown__name": "town name",
>>> }
>>>
>>>
>>> I propose adding a nested optional parameter to values, where a single 
>>> record from Person.objects.values(nested=True) will look like
>>>
>>> {"id": 1
>>>  "first_name": "first name",
>>>  "last_name": "last name",
>>>  "hometown": {
>>>   "id": 1,
>>>   "name": "town name"
>>>   }
>>> }
>>>
>>>
>>> This feature is needed given that most APIs these days are nested, while 
>>> it's simple to implement, I think it's much better to have it a built-in 
>>> django feature.
>>>
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Re: Add an optional parameter to values() that returns a nested dictionary for foreign keys

2015-11-25 Thread Moenad
Well, switch the field name aliasing to a dictionary without hijacking 
**kwargs ?

I prefer the following:

Articles.objects.get(id=1).values(’title’, ’author’, ‘body', 
alias={"title": "my_custom_title"}, nested=True)


On Wednesday, November 25, 2015 at 5:43:51 PM UTC+2, Tim Graham wrote:
>
> There's an accepted ticket for adding aliasing to values(): 
> https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/16735
>
> The current patch there hijacks values() **kwargs for the mapping of 
> renamed fields which would prevent adding other kwargs like "nested" 
> without disallowing those values as aliases. I guess we may want to rethink 
> that approach.
>
> On Wednesday, November 25, 2015 at 10:20:37 AM UTC-5, Bobby Mozumder wrote:
>>
>> I could also use a couple of enhancement to this:
>>
>> 1) Allow renaming of keys, instead of using the database column names.  
>> 2) Allow callbacks functions (or lambdas) to convert output values to 
>> another format if needed.
>>
>> With this, I could send the queries results right to JSON outputs.
>>
>> -bobby
>>
>> On Nov 25, 2015, at 9:05 AM, Moenad  wrote:
>>
>> Currently, after calling values() and the query executes, the output is a 
>> single level dictionary, including foreign keys. I propose adding an extra 
>> parameter for values, or at least values_list, where if it's set to true, a 
>> nested dictionary will be returned when there's a foreign key.
>>
>> Example:
>>
>> Person model with the following fields: first_name, last_name and 
>> hometown (foreign key)
>> Hometown model with the following fields: name
>>
>> A single record from Person.objects.values() will looks like this
>>
>> {"id": 1
>>  "first_name": "first name",
>>  "last_name": "last name",
>>  "hometown__id": 1,
>>  "hometown__name": "town name",
>> }
>>
>>
>> I propose adding a nested optional parameter to values, where a single 
>> record from Person.objects.values(nested=True) will look like
>>
>> {"id": 1
>>  "first_name": "first name",
>>  "last_name": "last name",
>>  "hometown": {
>>   "id": 1,
>>   "name": "town name"
>>   }
>> }
>>
>>
>> This feature is needed given that most APIs these days are nested, while 
>> it's simple to implement, I think it's much better to have it a built-in 
>> django feature.
>>
>>
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Re: Add an optional parameter to values() that returns a nested dictionary for foreign keys

2015-11-25 Thread Bobby Mozumder
A useful overall target for the next Django version would be to try and get all 
these feature up so that high-speed REST API development becomes easier.  
(really need to be able to push thousands of requests per second)

I’d like to directly go from Query to Response:  

response = JsonResponse(Articles.objects.get(id=1).values(’title’, ’author’, 
‘body'))   

While still having things like aliased fields, nested trees, and value 
formatting.

-bobby

> On Nov 25, 2015, at 10:43 AM, Tim Graham  wrote:
> 
> There's an accepted ticket for adding aliasing to values(): 
> https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/16735
> 
> The current patch there hijacks values() **kwargs for the mapping of renamed 
> fields which would prevent adding other kwargs like "nested" without 
> disallowing those values as aliases. I guess we may want to rethink that 
> approach.
> 
> On Wednesday, November 25, 2015 at 10:20:37 AM UTC-5, Bobby Mozumder wrote:
> I could also use a couple of enhancement to this:
> 
> 1) Allow renaming of keys, instead of using the database column names.  
> 2) Allow callbacks functions (or lambdas) to convert output values to another 
> format if needed.
> 
> With this, I could send the queries results right to JSON outputs.
> 
> -bobby
> 
>> On Nov 25, 2015, at 9:05 AM, Moenad > wrote:
>> 
>> Currently, after calling values() and the query executes, the output is a 
>> single level dictionary, including foreign keys. I propose adding an extra 
>> parameter for values, or at least values_list, where if it's set to true, a 
>> nested dictionary will be returned when there's a foreign key.
>> 
>> Example:
>> 
>> Person model with the following fields: first_name, last_name and hometown 
>> (foreign key)
>> Hometown model with the following fields: name
>> 
>> A single record from Person.objects.values() will looks like this
>> 
>> {"id": 1
>>  "first_name": "first name",
>>  "last_name": "last name",
>>  "hometown__id": 1,
>>  "hometown__name": "town name",
>> }
>> 
>> 
>> I propose adding a nested optional parameter to values, where a single 
>> record from Person.objects.values(nested=True) will look like
>> 
>> {"id": 1
>>  "first_name": "first name",
>>  "last_name": "last name",
>>  "hometown": {
>>   "id": 1,
>>   "name": "town name"
>>   }
>> }
>> 
>> 
>> This feature is needed given that most APIs these days are nested, while 
>> it's simple to implement, I think it's much better to have it a built-in 
>> django feature.
>> 
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Re: Add an optional parameter to values() that returns a nested dictionary for foreign keys

2015-11-25 Thread Tim Graham
There's an accepted ticket for adding aliasing to values(): 
https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/16735

The current patch there hijacks values() **kwargs for the mapping of 
renamed fields which would prevent adding other kwargs like "nested" 
without disallowing those values as aliases. I guess we may want to rethink 
that approach.

On Wednesday, November 25, 2015 at 10:20:37 AM UTC-5, Bobby Mozumder wrote:
>
> I could also use a couple of enhancement to this:
>
> 1) Allow renaming of keys, instead of using the database column names.  
> 2) Allow callbacks functions (or lambdas) to convert output values to 
> another format if needed.
>
> With this, I could send the queries results right to JSON outputs.
>
> -bobby
>
> On Nov 25, 2015, at 9:05 AM, Moenad > 
> wrote:
>
> Currently, after calling values() and the query executes, the output is a 
> single level dictionary, including foreign keys. I propose adding an extra 
> parameter for values, or at least values_list, where if it's set to true, a 
> nested dictionary will be returned when there's a foreign key.
>
> Example:
>
> Person model with the following fields: first_name, last_name and hometown 
> (foreign key)
> Hometown model with the following fields: name
>
> A single record from Person.objects.values() will looks like this
>
> {"id": 1
>  "first_name": "first name",
>  "last_name": "last name",
>  "hometown__id": 1,
>  "hometown__name": "town name",
> }
>
>
> I propose adding a nested optional parameter to values, where a single 
> record from Person.objects.values(nested=True) will look like
>
> {"id": 1
>  "first_name": "first name",
>  "last_name": "last name",
>  "hometown": {
>   "id": 1,
>   "name": "town name"
>   }
> }
>
>
> This feature is needed given that most APIs these days are nested, while 
> it's simple to implement, I think it's much better to have it a built-in 
> django feature.
>
>
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Re: Add an optional parameter to values() that returns a nested dictionary for foreign keys

2015-11-25 Thread Moenad
100%, that would be great also. I thought of just posting the basic 
requirement that might be useful to most.

On Wednesday, November 25, 2015 at 5:20:37 PM UTC+2, Bobby Mozumder wrote:
>
> I could also use a couple of enhancement to this:
>
> 1) Allow renaming of keys, instead of using the database column names.  
> 2) Allow callbacks functions (or lambdas) to convert output values to 
> another format if needed.
>
> With this, I could send the queries results right to JSON outputs.
>
> -bobby
>
> On Nov 25, 2015, at 9:05 AM, Moenad > 
> wrote:
>
> Currently, after calling values() and the query executes, the output is a 
> single level dictionary, including foreign keys. I propose adding an extra 
> parameter for values, or at least values_list, where if it's set to true, a 
> nested dictionary will be returned when there's a foreign key.
>
> Example:
>
> Person model with the following fields: first_name, last_name and hometown 
> (foreign key)
> Hometown model with the following fields: name
>
> A single record from Person.objects.values() will looks like this
>
> {"id": 1
>  "first_name": "first name",
>  "last_name": "last name",
>  "hometown__id": 1,
>  "hometown__name": "town name",
> }
>
>
> I propose adding a nested optional parameter to values, where a single 
> record from Person.objects.values(nested=True) will look like
>
> {"id": 1
>  "first_name": "first name",
>  "last_name": "last name",
>  "hometown": {
>   "id": 1,
>   "name": "town name"
>   }
> }
>
>
> This feature is needed given that most APIs these days are nested, while 
> it's simple to implement, I think it's much better to have it a built-in 
> django feature.
>
>
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Re: Add an optional parameter to values() that returns a nested dictionary for foreign keys

2015-11-25 Thread Bobby Mozumder
I could also use a couple of enhancement to this:

1) Allow renaming of keys, instead of using the database column names.  
2) Allow callbacks functions (or lambdas) to convert output values to another 
format if needed.

With this, I could send the queries results right to JSON outputs.

-bobby

> On Nov 25, 2015, at 9:05 AM, Moenad  wrote:
> 
> Currently, after calling values() and the query executes, the output is a 
> single level dictionary, including foreign keys. I propose adding an extra 
> parameter for values, or at least values_list, where if it's set to true, a 
> nested dictionary will be returned when there's a foreign key.
> 
> Example:
> 
> Person model with the following fields: first_name, last_name and hometown 
> (foreign key)
> Hometown model with the following fields: name
> 
> A single record from Person.objects.values() will looks like this
> 
> {"id": 1
>  "first_name": "first name",
>  "last_name": "last name",
>  "hometown__id": 1,
>  "hometown__name": "town name",
> }
> 
> 
> I propose adding a nested optional parameter to values, where a single record 
> from Person.objects.values(nested=True) will look like
> 
> {"id": 1
>  "first_name": "first name",
>  "last_name": "last name",
>  "hometown": {
>   "id": 1,
>   "name": "town name"
>   }
> }
> 
> 
> This feature is needed given that most APIs these days are nested, while it's 
> simple to implement, I think it's much better to have it a built-in django 
> feature.
> 
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