This is a simple manager that offers one additional method called relate, which fetches generic foreign keys (as referenced by content_type and object_id fields) without requiring one additional query for each contained element.
Basically, when working with generic foreign keys (and esp. in the usecase of having something like a tumblelog where you use an additional model just to have a single sorting point of multiple other models), don't do something like result = StreamItem.objects.select_related() but just fetch the content type with result = StreamItem.objects.select_related('content_type'), otherwise you will end up with first one query for the list of StreamItems but then also with one additional query for each item contained in this resultset.
When you now combine the latter call with result = StreamItem.gfkmanager.relate(result), you will just get the one query for the item list + one query for each content type contained in this list (if the models have already been cached).
For further details, please read this post on my blog.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 | from django.db import models
class GFKManager(models.Manager):
def relate(self, qs):
model_map = {}
item_map = {}
for item in qs:
model_map.setdefault(item.content_type, {}) \
[item.object_id] = item.id
item_map[item.id] = item
for ct, items_ in model_map.items():
for o in ct.model_class().objects.select_related() \
.filter(id__in=items_.keys()).all():
item_map[items_[o.id]].content_object = o
return qs
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