[Django]-Django JsonField filter by two fields

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Apparently, nowadays Django has not built-in support for array elements comparison for JSONField. Fortunately, Django allows to make a lot of custom staff. For example, Django‘s raw SQL feature.

And if you use PostgreSQL as your main DB, you can use JSON Processing Functions. The jsonb_array_elements() from JSON processing functions is pretty nice choice.

Combining features above, we can make a little workaround for your case:

# Create method that uses raw SQL within your `objects` Model Manager.
# Create your own filters as you want. This example should be improved
# and handle exception cases of course.
def filter_blogs_json(json_field, sql_operator, value):
    return Blog.objects.raw(f"SELECT id, data FROM yourappname_blog CROSS JOIN jsonb_array_elements(values) AS data WHERE (data->'{json_field}')::numeric {sql_operator} {value};")

# You can get raw objects queryset 
raw_blogs_qs = filter_blogs_json('value', '>=', 31)

# Then you can process it anyway you want
filtered_blog_ids = [b.id for b in raw_blogs_qs]
queryset = Blog.objects.filter(...).filter(id__in=filtered_blog_ids)

Pretty easy, isn’t it? 🙂

Moreover, I believe it is possible to make your own queryset Lookup‘s for JSONField, extend queries as you want and etc.

👤catscoolzhyk

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Hello and welcome to Stack Overflow!

Try looking at Django’s Q objects. Some documentation is available here.

Case 1

As mentioned in this answer, try using the __contains filter:

Blog.objects.filter(values__contains=[{'id': 1}])

and then manually filter the results for the second field.

Case 2

Perhaps a better option would be to have a second table for the individual values, like the following models:

class Blog(models.Model):
    name = models.CharField(max_length=100)  # or something else


class Value(models.Model):
    blog = models.ForeignKey(Blog, on_delete=models.CASCADE)
    json = models.JSONField(blank=True, related_name="values")

and then perform the search like so:

Blog.objects.filter(Q(values__json__id=1) & Q(values__json__value__gte=31))
👤Amélie Krejčí

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