Opened 9 years ago
Last modified 9 years ago
#25279 closed New feature
Make prefetch_related_objects a public API — at Initial Version
Reported by: | Adam Johnson | Owned by: | nobody |
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Component: | Database layer (models, ORM) | Version: | 1.8 |
Severity: | Normal | Keywords: | |
Cc: | Triage Stage: | Ready for checkin | |
Has patch: | yes | Needs documentation: | no |
Needs tests: | no | Patch needs improvement: | no |
Easy pickings: | no | UI/UX: | no |
Description
prefetch_related
is great, but it would be nice to be able to reuse its capabilities with lists of model instances already retrieved by other code (or from cache, or newly constructed, etc.). It seems this is possible by using django.db.models.query.prefetch_related_objects
which is the function implementing all the prefetch capability - I've just seen it used fine, however it is not part of Django's public API.
As far as I can tell, just doing an import
in django.db.models.__init__
and adding documentation should be enough to make it public, since prefetch_related_objects
contains all the functionality that prefetch_related
exposes.