sortedm2m is a drop-in replacement for django's own ManyToManyField.
The provided SortedManyToManyField behaves like the original one but
remembers the order of added relations.
Imagine that you have a gallery model and a photo model. Usually you want a relation between these models so you can add multiple photos to one gallery but also want to be able to have the same photo on many galleries.
This is where you usually can use many to many relation. The downside is that django's default implementation doesn't provide a way to order the photos in the gallery. So you only have a random ordering which is not suitable in most cases.
You can work around this limitation by using the SortedManyToManyField
provided by this package as drop in replacement for django's
ManyToManyField.
django-sortedm2m runs on Python 3.6+ and multiple Django versions.
See the .github/workflows/test.yml configuration for the tested Django versions.
Use SortedManyToManyField like ManyToManyField in your models:
from django.db import models
from sortedm2m.fields import SortedManyToManyField
class Photo(models.Model):
name = models.CharField(max_length=50)
image = models.ImageField(upload_to='...')
class Gallery(models.Model):
name = models.CharField(max_length=50)
photos = SortedManyToManyField(Photo)If you use the relation in your code like the following, it will remember the order in which you have added photos to the gallery. :
gallery = Gallery.objects.create(name='Photos ordered by name')
for photo in Photo.objects.order_by('name'):
gallery.photos.add(photo)You can use the following arguments to modify the default behavior:
Default: True
You can set the sorted to False which will force the
SortedManyToManyField in behaving like Django's original
ManyToManyField. No ordering will be performed on relation nor will the
intermediate table have a database field for storing ordering information.
Default: 'sort_value'
Specifies how the field is called in the intermediate database table by which the relationship is ordered. You can change its name if you have a legacy database that you need to integrate into your application.
Default: None
You can set the base_class, which is the base class of the through model of
the sortedm2m relationship between models to an abstract base class containing
a __str__ method to improve the string representations of sortedm2m
relationships.
Note
You also could use it to add additional fields to the through model. But please beware: These fields will not be created or modified by an automatically created migration. You will need to take care of migrations yourself. In most cases when you want to add another field, consider not using sortedm2m but use a ordinary Django ManyToManyField and specify your own through model.
If you are using Django's migration framework and want to change a
ManyToManyField to be a SortedManyToManyField (or the other way
around), you will find that a migration created by Django's makemigrations
will not work as expected.
In order to migrate a ManyToManyField to a SortedManyToManyField, you
change the field in your models to be a SortedManyToManyField as
appropriate and create a new migration with manage.py makemigrations.
Before applying it, edit the migration file and change in the operations
list migrations.AlterField to AlterSortedManyToManyField (import it
from sortedm2m.operations). This operation will take care of changing the
intermediate tables, add the ordering field and fill in default values.
SortedManyToManyField provides a custom widget which can be used to sort
the selected items. It renders a list of checkboxes that can be sorted by
drag'n'drop.
To use the widget in the admin you need to add sortedm2m to your
INSTALLED_APPS settings, like:
INSTALLED_APPS = (
'django.contrib.auth',
'django.contrib.contenttypes',
'django.contrib.sessions',
'django.contrib.sites',
'django.contrib.messages',
'django.contrib.staticfiles',
'django.contrib.admin',
'sortedm2m',
'...',
)Otherwise it will not find the css and js files needed to sort by drag'n'drop.
Finally, make sure not to have the model listed in any filter_horizontal
or filter_vertical tuples inside of your ModelAdmin definitions.
If you did it right, you'll wind up with something like this:
It's also possible to use the SortedManyToManyField with admin's
raw_id_fields option in the ModelAdmin definition. Add the name of the
SortedManyToManyField to this list to get a simple text input field. The
order in which the ids are entered into the input box is used to sort the
items of the sorted m2m relation.
Example:
from django.contrib import admin
class GalleryAdmin(admin.ModelAdmin):
raw_id_fields = ('photos',)This is a Jazzband project. By contributing you agree to abide by the Contributor Code of Conduct and follow the guidelines.
You can find the latest development version on Github. Get there and fork it, file bugs or send well wishes.
I recommend to use tox to run the tests for all relevant python versions
all at once. Therefore install tox with pip install tox, then type in
the root directory of the django-sortedm2m checkout:
tox
The tests are run against SQLite, then against PostgreSQL, then against mySQL -
so you need to install PostgreSQL and mySQL on your dev environment, and should
have a role/user sortedm2m set up for both PostgreSQL and mySQL.
This project uses isort, pycodestyle, and pylint to manage validate code quality. These validations can be run with the following command:
tox -e quality
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