MySQL/MariaDB-specific database functions for the ORM.
The following can be imported from django_mysql.models.functions
.
Evaluates the expression condition
and returns the value of the expression true
if true, and the result of expression false
if false. If false
is not given, it will be Value(None)
, i.e. NULL
.
Usage example:
>>> Author.objects.annotate( ... is_william=If(Q(name__startswith="William "), True, False) ... ).values_list("name", "is_william") [('William Shakespeare', True), ('Ian Fleming', False), ('William Wordsworth', True)]
Computes a cyclic redundancy check value and returns a 32-bit unsigned value. The result is NULL
if the argument is NULL
. The argument is expected to be a string and (if possible) is treated as one if it is not.
Usage example:
>>> Author.objects.annotate(description_crc=CRC32("description"))
ConcatWS
stands for Concatenate With Separator and is a special form of Concat
(included in Django). It concatenates all of its argument expressions as strings with the given separator
. Since NULL
values are skipped, unlike in Concat
, you can use the empty string as a separator and it acts as a NULL
-safe version of Concat
.
If separator
is a string, it will be turned into a Value
. If you wish to join with the value of a field, you can pass in an F
object for that field.
Usage example:
>>> Author.objects.annotate(sales_list=ConcatWS("sales_eu", "sales_us"))
Given a numerical expression number
, it returns the number
th element from values
, 1-indexed. If number
is less than 1 or greater than the number of expressions, it will return None
. It is the complement of the Field
function.
Note that if number
is a string, it will refer to a field, whereas members of values
that are strings will be wrapped with Value
automatically and thus interpreted as the given string. This is for convenience with the most common usage pattern where you have the list pre-loaded in python, e.g. a choices
field. If you want to refer to a column, use Django’s F()
class.
Usage example:
>>> # Say Person.life_state is either 1 (alive), 2 (dead), or 3 (M.I.A.) >>> Person.objects.annotate(state_name=ELT("life_state", ["Alive", "Dead", "M.I.A."]))
Given an expression
and a list of strings values
, returns the 1-indexed location of the expression
’s value in values
, or 0 if not found. This is commonly used with order_by
to keep groups of elements together. It is the complement of the ELT
function.
Note that if expression
is a string, it will refer to a field, whereas if any member of values
is a string, it will automatically be wrapped with Value
and refer to the given string. This is for convenience with the most common usage pattern where you have the list of things pre-loaded in Python, e.g. in a field’s choices
. If you want to refer to a column, use Django’s F()
class.
Usage example:
>>> # Females, then males - but other values of gender (e.g. empty string) first >>> Person.objects.all().order_by(Field("gender", ["Female", "Male"]))
Returns the XML fragment xml_target
with the single match for xpath_expr
replaced with the xml fragment new_xml
. If nothing matches xpath_expr
, or if multiple matches are found, the original xml_target
is returned unchanged.
This can be used for single-query updates of text fields containing XML.
Note that if xml_target
is given as a string, it will refer to a column, whilst if either xpath_expr
or new_xml
are strings, they will be used as strings directly. If you want xpath_expr
or new_xml
to refer to columns, use Django’s F()
class.
Usage example:
# Remove 'sagacity' from all authors' xml_attrs >>> Author.objects.update(xml_attrs=UpdateXML("xml_attrs", "/sagacity", ""))
Returns the text (CDATA
) of the first text node which is a child of the element(s) in the XML fragment xml_frag
matched by the XPath expression xpath_expr
. In SQL this function is called ExtractValue
; the class has the XML
prefix to make it clearer what kind of values are it extracts.
Note that if xml_frag
is given as a string, it will refer to a column, whilst if xpath_expr
is a string, it will be used as a string. If you want xpath_expr
to refer to a column, use Django’s F()
class.
Usage example:
# Count the number of authors with 'sagacity' in their xml_attrs >>> num_authors_with_sagacity = ( ... Author.objects.annotate( ... has_sagacity=XMLExtractValue("xml_attrs", "count(/sagacity)") ... ) ... .filter(has_sagacity="1") ... .count() ... )
Note
These work with MariaDB 10.0.5+ only, which includes PCRE regular expressions and these extra functions to use them. More information can be found in its documentation.
Returns the 1-indexed position of the first occurrence of the regular expression regex
in the string value of expression
, or 0 if it was not found.
Note that if expression
is given as a string, it will refer to a column, whilst if regex
is a string, it will be used as a string. If you want regex
to refer to a column, use Django’s F()
class.
Docs: MariaDB.
Usage example:
>>> Author.objects.annotate(name_pos=RegexpInstr("name", r"ens")).filter(name_pos__gt=0) [<Author: Charles Dickens>, <Author: Robert Louis Stevenson>]
Returns the string value of expression
with all occurrences of the regular expression regex
replaced by the string replace
. If no occurrences are found, then subject is returned as is.
Note that if expression
is given as a string, it will refer to a column, whilst if either regex
or replace
are strings, they will be used as strings. If you want regex
or replace
to refer to columns, use Django’s F()
class.
Docs: MariaDB.
Usage example:
>>> Author.objects.create(name="Charles Dickens") >>> Author.objects.create(name="Roald Dahl") >>> qs = Author.objects.annotate( ... surname_first=RegexpReplace("name", r"^(.*) (.*)$", r"\2, \1") ... ).order_by("surname_first") >>> qs [<Author: Roald Dahl>, <Author: Charles Dickens>] >>> qs[0].surname_first "Dahl, Roald"
Returns the part of the string value of expression
that matches the regular expression regex
, or an empty string if regex
was not found.
Note that if expression
is given as a string, it will refer to a column, whilst if regex
is a string, it will be used as a string. If you want regex
to refer to a column, use Django’s F()
class.
Docs: MariaDB.
Usage example:
>>> Author.objects.create(name="Euripides") >>> Author.objects.create(name="Frank Miller") >>> Author.objects.create(name="Sophocles") >>> Author.objects.annotate(name_has_space=CharLength(RegexpSubstr("name", r"\s"))).filter( ... name_has_space=0 ... ) [<Author: Euripides>, <Author: Sophocles>]
With no argument, returns the last value added to an auto-increment column, or set by another call to LastInsertId
with an argument. With an argument, sets the ‘last insert id’ value to the value of the given expression, and returns that value. This can be used to implement simple UPDATE ... RETURNING
style queries.
This function also has a class method:
Returns the value set by a call to LastInsertId()
with an argument, by performing a single query. It is stored per-connection, hence you may need to pass the alias of the connection that set the LastInsertId
as using
.
Note
Any queries on the database connection between setting LastInsertId
and calling LastInsertId.get()
can reset the value. These might come from Django, which can issue multiple queries for update()
with multi-table inheritance, or for delete()
with cascading.
Usage examples:
>>> Countable.objects.filter(id=1).update(counter=LastInsertId("counter") + 1) 1 >>> # Get the pre-increase value of 'counter' as stored on the server >>> LastInsertId.get() 242 >>> Author.objects.filter(id=1, age=LastInsertId("age")).delete() 1 >>> # We can also use the stored value directly in a query >>> Author.objects.filter(id=2).update(age=LastInsertId()) 1 >>> Author.objects.get(id=2).age 35
These functions work with data stored in Django’s JSONField
on MySQL and MariaDB only. JSONField
is built in to Django 3.1+ and can be installed on older Django versions with the django-jsonfield-backport package.
These functions use JSON paths to address content inside JSON documents - for more information on their syntax, refer to the docs: MySQL / MariaDB.
Given expression
that resolves to some JSON data, extract the given JSON paths. If there is a single path, the plain value is returned; if there is more than one path, the output is a JSON array with the list of values represented by the paths. If the expression does not match for a particular JSON object, returns NULL
.
If only one path is given, output_field
may also be given as a model field instance like IntegerField()
, into which Django will load the value; the default is JSONField()
, as it supports all return types including the array of values for multiple paths.
Note that if expression
is a string, it will refer to a field, whereas members of paths
that are strings will be wrapped with Value
automatically and thus interpreted as the given string. If you want any of paths
to refer to a field, use Django’s F()
class.
Usage examples:
>>> # Fetch a list of tuples (id, size_or_None) for all ShopItems >>> ShopItem.objects.annotate(size=JSONExtract("attrs", "$.size")).values_list("id", "size") [(1, '3m'), (3, '5nm'), (8, None)] >>> # Fetch the distinct values of attrs['colours'][0] for all items >>> ShopItem.objects.annotate( ... primary_colour=JSONExtract("attrs", "$.colours[0]") ... ).distinct().values_list("primary_colour", flat=True) ['Red', 'Blue', None]
Given expression
that resolves to some JSON data containing a JSON object, return the keys in that top-level object as a JSON array, or if path
is given, return the keys at that path. If the path does not match, or if expression
is not a JSON object (e.g. it contains a JSON array instead), returns NULL
.
Note that if expression
is a string, it will refer to a field, whereas if path
is a string it will be wrapped with Value
automatically and thus interpreted as the given string. If you want path
to refer to a field, use Django’s F()
class.
>>> # Fetch the top-level keys for the first item >>> ShopItem.objects.annotate(keys=JSONKeys("attrs")).values_list("keys", flat=True)[0] ['size', 'colours', 'age', 'price', 'origin'] >>> # Fetch the keys in 'origin' for the first item >>> ShopItem.objects.annotate(keys=JSONKeys("attrs", "$.origin")).values_list( ... "keys", flat=True ... )[0] ['continent', 'country', 'town']
Given expression
that resolves to some JSON data, return the length of that data, or if path
is given, return the length of the data at that path. If the path does not match, or if expression
is NULL
it returns NULL
.
As per the MySQL documentation, the length of a document is determined as follows:
The length of a scalar is 1.
The length of an array is the number of array elements.
The length of an object is the number of object members.
The length does not count the length of nested arrays or objects.
Note that if expression
is a string, it will refer to a field, whereas if path
is a string it will be wrapped with Value
automatically and thus interpreted as the given string. If you want path
to refer to a field, use Django’s F()
class.
>>> # Which ShopItems don't have more than three colours? >>> ShopItem.objects.annotate(num_colours=JSONLength("attrs", "$.colours")).filter( ... num_colours__gt=3 ... ) [<ShopItem: Rainbow Wheel>, <ShopItem: Hard Candies>]
Given expression
that resolves to some JSON data, adds to it using the dictionary data
of JSON paths to new values. If any JSON path in the data
dictionary does not match, or if expression
is NULL
, it returns NULL
. Paths that already exist in the original data are ignored.
Note that if expression
is a string, it will refer to a field, whereas keys and values within the pairs
dictionary will be wrapped with Value
automatically and thus interpreted as the given string. If you want a key or value to refer to a field, use Django’s F()
class.
>>> # Add power_level = 0 for those items that don't have power_level >>> ShopItem.objects.update(attrs=JSONInsert("attrs", {"$.power_level": 0}))
Given expression
that resolves to some JSON data, replaces existing paths in it using the dictionary data
of JSON paths to new values. If any JSON path within the data
dictionary does not match, or if expression
is NULL
, it returns NULL
. Paths that do not exist in the original data are ignored.
Note that if expression
is a string, it will refer to a field, whereas keys and values within the pairs
dictionary will be wrapped with Value
automatically and thus interpreted as the given string. If you want a key or value to refer to a field, use Django’s F()
class.
>>> # Reset all items' monthly_sales to 0 directly in MySQL >>> ShopItem.objects.update(attrs=JSONReplace("attrs", {"$.monthly_sales": 0}))
Given expression
that resolves to some JSON data, updates it using the dictionary data
of JSON paths to new values. If any of the JSON paths within the data dictionary does not match, or if expression
is NULL
, it returns NULL
. All paths can be modified - those that did not exist before and those that did.
Note that if expression
is a string, it will refer to a field, whereas keys and values within the data
dictionary will be wrapped with Value
automatically and thus interpreted as the given string. If you want a key or value to refer to a field, use Django’s F()
class.
>>> # Modify 'size' value to '10m' directly in MySQL >>> shop_item = ShopItem.objects.latest() >>> shop_item.attrs = JSONSet("attrs", {"$.size": "10m"}) >>> shop_item.save()
Given expression
that resolves to some JSON data, adds to it using the dictionary data
of JSON paths to new values. If a path selects an array, the new value will be appended to it. On the other hand, if a path selects a scalar or object value, that value is autowrapped within an array and the new value is added to that array. If any of the JSON paths within the data dictionary does not match, or if expression
is NULL
, it returns NULL
.
Note that if expression
is a string, it will refer to a field, whereas keys and values within the data
dictionary will be wrapped with Value
automatically and thus interpreted as the given string. If you want a key or value to refer to a field, use Django’s F()
class.
>>> # Append the string '10m' to the array 'sizes' directly in MySQL >>> shop_item = ShopItem.objects.latest() >>> shop_item.attrs = JSONArrayAppend("attrs", {"$.sizes": "10m"}) >>> shop_item.save()
These are MariaDB 10.0+ only, and for use with DynamicField
.
A partial function that should be used as part of a ColumnAdd
expression when you want to ensure that expression
will be stored as a given type data_type
. The possible values for data_type
are the same as documented for the DynamicField
lookups.
Note that this is not a valid standalone function and must be used as part of ColumnAdd
- see below.
Given expression
that resolves to a DynamicField
(most often a field name), add/update with the dictionary to_add
and return the new Dynamic Columns value. This can be used for atomic single-query updates on Dynamic Columns.
Note that you can add optional types (and you should!). These can not be drawn from the spec
of the DynamicField
due to ORM restrictions, so there are no guarantees about the types that will get used if you do not. To add a type cast, wrap the value with an AsType
(above) - see examples below.
Docs: MariaDB.
Usage examples:
>>> # Add default 'for_sale' as INTEGER 1 to every item >>> ShopItem.objects.update(attrs=ColumnAdd("attrs", {"for_sale": AsType(1, "INTEGER")})) >>> # Fix some data >>> ShopItem.objects.filter(attrs__size="L").update( ... attrs=ColumnAdd("attrs", {"size": AsType("Large", "CHAR")}) ... )
Given expression
that resolves to a DynamicField
(most often a field name), delete the columns listed by the other expressions to_delete
, and return the new Dynamic Columns value. This can be used for atomic single-query deletions on Dynamic Columns.
Note that strings in to_delete
will be wrapped with Value
automatically and thus interpreted as the given string - if they weren’t, Django would interpret them as meaning “the value in this (non-dynamic) column”. If you do mean that, use F('fieldname')
.
Docs: MariaDB.
Usage examples:
>>> # Remove 'for_sail' and 'for_purchase' from every item >>> ShopItem.objects.update(attrs=ColumnDelete("attrs", "for_sail", "for_purchase"))
Given expression
that resolves to a DynamicField
(most often a field name), return the value of the column name
when cast to the type data_type
, or NULL
/ None
if the column does not exist. This can be used to select a subset of column values when you don’t want to fetch the whole blob. The possible values for data_type
are the same as documented for the DynamicField
lookups.
Docs: MariaDB.
Usage examples:
>>> # Fetch a list of tuples (id, size_or_None) for all items >>> ShopItem.objects.annotate(size=ColumnGet("attrs", "size", "CHAR")).values_list( ... "id", "size" ... ) >>> # Fetch the distinct values of attrs['seller']['url'] for all items >>> ShopItem.objects.annotate( ... seller_url=ColumnGet(ColumnGet("attrs", "seller", "BINARY"), "url", "CHAR") ... ).distinct().values_list("seller_url", flat=True)
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