""" 5. Many-to-many relationships To define a many-to-many relationship, use ManyToManyField(). In this example, an article can be published in multiple publications, and a publication has multiple articles. """ from django.db import models class Publication(models.Model): title = models.CharField(maxlength=30) def __repr__(self): return self.title class Article(models.Model): headline = models.CharField(maxlength=100) publications = models.ManyToManyField(Publication) def __repr__(self): return self.headline API_TESTS = """ # Create a couple of Publications. >>> p1 = Publication(id=None, title='The Python Journal') >>> p1.save() >>> p2 = Publication(id=None, title='Science News') >>> p2.save() >>> p3 = Publication(id=None, title='Science Weekly') >>> p3.save() # Create an Article. >>> a1 = Article(id=None, headline='Django lets you build Web apps easily') >>> a1.save() # Associate the Article with one Publication. set_publications() returns a # boolean, representing whether any records were added or deleted. >>> a1.set_publications([p1.id]) True # If we set it again, it'll return False, because the list of Publications # hasn't changed. >>> a1.set_publications([p1.id]) False # Create another Article, and set it to appear in both Publications. >>> a2 = Article(id=None, headline='NASA uses Python') >>> a2.save() >>> a2.set_publications([p1.id, p2.id]) True >>> a2.set_publications([p1.id]) True >>> a2.set_publications([p1.id, p2.id, p3.id]) True # Article objects have access to their related Publication objects. >>> a1.publications.all() [The Python Journal] >>> a2.publications.all() [The Python Journal, Science News, Science Weekly] # Publication objects have access to their related Article objects. >>> p2.article_set.all() [NASA uses Python] >>> p1.article_set.order_by('headline') [Django lets you build Web apps easily, NASA uses Python] # We can perform kwarg queries across m2m relationships >>> Article.objects.filter(publications__id__exact=1) [Django lets you build Web apps easily, NASA uses Python] >>> Article.objects.filter(publications__pk=1) [Django lets you build Web apps easily, NASA uses Python] >>> Article.objects.filter(publications__title__startswith="Science") [NASA uses Python, NASA uses Python] >>> Article.objects.filter(publications__title__startswith="Science").distinct() [NASA uses Python] # Reverse m2m queries (i.e., start at the table that doesn't have a ManyToManyField) >>> Publication.objects.filter(id__exact=1) [The Python Journal] >>> Publication.objects.filter(pk=1) [The Python Journal] >>> Publication.objects.filter(article__headline__startswith="NASA") [The Python Journal, Science News, Science Weekly] >>> Publication.objects.filter(article__id__exact=1) [The Python Journal] >>> Publication.objects.filter(article__pk=1) [The Python Journal] # If we delete a Publication, its Articles won't be able to access it. >>> p1.delete() >>> Publication.objects.all() [Science News, Science Weekly] >>> a1 = Article.objects.get(pk=1) >>> a1.publications.all() [] # If we delete an Article, its Publications won't be able to access it. >>> a2.delete() >>> Article.objects.all() [Django lets you build Web apps easily] >>> p1.article_set.order_by('headline') [Django lets you build Web apps easily] """