I have a Model with a JSONField:
class MyModel(models.Model):
locale_names = models.JSONField()
The shape of the JSON Field is simple: keys are language codes (en, fr…) and values are translated strings.
I’m trying to build a search query that does an unaccented icontains search on a translated value:
MyModel.objects.filter(locale_names__en__unaccent__icontains="Test")
This does not give the expected results, because Django interprets "unaccent" as a key to look up in the JSON, rather than the unaccent
PostgreSQL function:
-- Expected SQL query: something like
SELECT "app_model"."*" ...
FROM "app_model"
WHERE UPPER(UNACCENT("app_model"."locale_names" ->>'en')::text)) LIKE UPPER(UNACCENT('%Test%'))
LIMIT 21
-- Actual SQL query
SELECT "app_model"."*" ...
FROM "app_model"
WHERE UPPER(("app_model"."locale_names" #>> ARRAY['en','unaccent'])::text) LIKE UPPER('%Test%')
LIMIT 21
How can I tel Django to interpret __unaccent
as the PostgreSQL function rather than a JSON path?
EDIT:
- I’m using Django 3.2
- Doing
__unaccent__icontains
lookups on regular CharFields works as expected.
2
Answers
As a complement to @Benbb96's answer above, my workaround was to write the WHERE clause I needed using the soon-to-be-deprecated QuerySet.extra method:
As requested by the Django team, I created a ticket with them so that this use case can be addressed without
QuerySet.extra()
.Unfortunately,
JSONField
does not supportunaccent
lookup.cf. documentation :