Store Q()-filter terms in Database?

Using Django Using the ORM
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You have a couple different ways to do this.

  • You can pickle an object and store it.

  • You can store the source code and use eval or exec to execute it.

  • You can create your own serialized data format and dynamically build the filters from it in your code.

Keep in mind that a function call in Python like:
some_function(parm_1=value_1, parm_2=value_2)

is functionally identical to:

parm_dict = {'parm_1': value_1, 'parm_2': value_2}
some_function(**parm_dict)

which means you can dynamically create a filter from your data.

We actually use the last two techniques in a couple projects.

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