Clarified custom lookups output_field documentation
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this here as it didn't change, but supposing we were applying ``AbsoluteValue``
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to some field which represents a more complex type (for example a point
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relative to an origin, or a complex number) then we may have wanted to specify
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``output_field = FloatField``, which will ensure that further lookups like
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``abs__lte`` behave as they would for a ``FloatField``.
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that the transform returns a ``FloatField`` type for further lookups. This can
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be done by adding an ``output_field`` attribute to the transform::
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from django.db.models import FloatField, Transform
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class AbsoluteValue(Transform):
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lookup_name = 'abs'
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def as_sql(self, qn, connection):
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lhs, params = qn.compile(self.lhs)
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return "ABS(%s)" % lhs, params
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@property
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def output_field(self):
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return FloatField()
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This ensures that further lookups like ``abs__lte`` behave as they would for
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a ``FloatField``.
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Writing an efficient abs__lt lookup
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