Hi James, yup, that's right. And I certainly have done that automatic
transform for the WHERE part of the query. However it's the SELECT part
that doesn't have any hooks. But Kuba's suggestion of writing a custom
backend will. Though because it's just an optimisation I think I can leave
it for now.
Hi Hansel,
Might be missing the point, but... If you're looking to reference the
individual fields, can you leverage the Postgres JsonField's key lookup
functionality? As per
https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.11/ref/contrib/postgres/fields/#key-index-and-path-lookups
A quick bit of code inspect
Thank you Kuba! That's interesting. Good to know it's possible . If not,
perhaps, advisable. I imagine my translated fields could register the
models they're on and "as_sql" could do a quick lookup to see if we were
referencing any of them in the particular query.
I have looked at existing alterna
Hi Hansel,
On 26 October 2017 at 18:52, Hansel Dunlop wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> So I just got a notification from Stackoverflow that this question -
> https://stackoverflow.com/questions/46804936/custom-
> django-field-type-with-modified-column-look-up-in-select-part - was just
> awarded the tumblew
