[Answered ]-Retrieve Django ManyToMany results outside of the current model

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Many-to-Many relationships are mutual. So stores can be seen from brands and vice-versa.

You can use prefetch_related to minimize the number of DB queries that will be required to do this:

brands = Brand.objects.filter(slug=slug).prefetch_related('stores')
stores = [b.stores.all() for b in brands] # all related stores to those brands

Update

related_name was not properly defined. Use the name of the model that contains the M2M relationship:

brands = models.ManyToManyField('Brand', related_name='stores')
👤Moses Koledoye

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I think I’ve found a solution online, not sure if it’s perfect but it’s working for me:

class Store(models.Model):
    brands = models.ManyToManyField('Brand', blank=True)

class Brand(models.Model):
    stores = models.ManyToManyField('Store', through=Store.brands.through, blank=True)
👤Ryan

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