A django app to apply filters on drf querysetsusing query params with validations using voluptuous.
Project description
drf-url-filters is a simple django app to apply filters on drf modelviewset’s queryset in a clean, simple and configureable way. It also supports validations on incoming filters and their values. A beautiful python package voluptouos is being used for validations on the incoming query parameters. The best part about voluptouos is you can define your on validations as per your query params requirements.
# Quick start
Installation
Download drf-url-filters app package from this git repo or can be isnatlled using python-pip like pip install drf-url-filters.
Add filters in INSTALLED_APPS in settings.py file of django project.
How it works?
Your View or ModelViewSet should inherit FiltersMixin from filters.mixins.FiltersMixin .
To apply filters using drf-url-filters we need to configure our view to have a dict mapping filter_mappings which converts incoming query parameters to query you want to make on the column name on the queryset.
# validations.py
from filters.validations import (
CSVofIntegers,
IntegerLike,
DatetimeWithTZ
)
from filters.schema import base_query_param_schema
players_query_schema = base_query_param_schema.extend(
{
"id": IntegerLike()
"name": unicode,
"team_id": CSVofIntegers(),
"install_ts" :DatetimeWithTZ(),
"update_ts": DatetimeWithTZ(),
}
)
# views.py
from rest_framework import viewsets
from filters.mixins import FiltersMixin
from .models import Players
from .serializers import PlayersViewSet
from .validations import players_query_schema
class PlayersViewSet(FiltersMixin, viewsets.ModelViewSet):
"""
This viewset automatically provides `list`, `create`,
`retrieve`, `update` and `destroy` actions.
"""
serializer_class = PlayersSerializer
pagination_class = PlayersPagination
# add a mapping of query_params to db_columns(queries)
filter_mappings = {
'id': 'id',
'name': 'name__icontains',
'team_id': 'teams', # considering a many-to-many related field
'install_ts': 'install_ts',
'update_ts': 'update_ts',
'update_ts__gte': 'update_ts__gte',
'update_ts__lte': 'update_ts__lte',
}
# add validation on filters
filter_validation_schema = players_query_schema
def get_queryset(self):
"""
Optionally restricts the queryset by filtering against
query parameters in the URL.
"""
query_params = self.request.query_params
queryset = Players.objects.all()
# This dict will hold filter kwargs to pass in to Django ORM calls.
db_filters = {}
# update filters on players queryset using FiltersMixin.get_queryset_filters
db_filters.update(
self.get_queryset_filters(
query_params
)
)
return queryset.filter(**db_filters)With the use of drf-url-filters adding a new filter on a new column is as simple as adding a new key in the dict. Prohibitting a filter on particular column is same as removing a a key value mapping from the filter_mappings dict.
