The ORM in Django lets us easily annotate (add fields to) querysets based on related data, hwoever I can't find a way to get multiple annotations for different filtered subsets of related data.
This is being asked in relation to django-helpdesk, an open-source Django-powered trouble-ticket tracker. I need to have data pivoted like this for charting and reporting purposes
Consider these models:
CHOICE_LIST = (
('open', 'Open'),
('closed', 'Closed'),
)
class Queue(models.model):
name = models.CharField(max_length=40)
class Issue(models.Model):
subject = models.CharField(max_length=40)
queue = models.ForeignKey(Queue)
status = models.CharField(max_length=10, choices=CHOICE_LIST)
And this dataset:
Queues:
ID | Name
---+------------------------------
1 | Product Information Requests
2 | Service Requests
Issues:
ID | Queue | Status
---+-------+---------
1 | 1 | open
2 | 1 | open
3 | 1 | closed
4 | 2 | open
5 | 2 | closed
6 | 2 | closed
7 | 2 | closed
I would like to see an annotation/aggregate look something like this:
Queue ID | Name | open | closed
---------+-------------------------------+------+--------
1 | Product Information Requests | 2 | 1
2 | Service Requests | 1 | 3
This is basically a crosstab or pivot table, in Excel parlance. I am currently building this output using some custom SQL queries, however if I can move to using the Django ORM I can more easily filter the data dynamically without doing dodgy insertion of WHERE clauses in my SQL.
For "bonus points": How would one do this where the pivot field (status in the example above) was a date, and we wan