Is it possible to order_by with a callable?

Question

DUPLICATE: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/981375/using-a-django-custom-model-method-property-in-orderby

I have two models; one that stores posts and another that stores votes made on those posts, related using a ForeignKey field. Each vote is stored as a separate record since I need to track the user and datetime that the vote was cast.

I've created a helper function that tallys all the votes using the Django 1.1 aggregation Sum function.

class Post(models.Model):
    ...some fields...

    def tally(self):
        return self.vote_set.all().aggregate(Sum('value'))['value__sum'] or 0

class Vote(models.Model):
    post = models.ForeignKey(Post)
    value = models.IntegerField()
    ...some fields...

One query I need to make needs to do a one off order_by of the tally. However:

Post.objects.all().order_by('tally')

yields the following template error:

Caught an exception while rendering: Cannot resolve keyword 'tally' into field. Choices are: date_created, description, id, is_active, name, related, slug, user, vote

It there any way to get the order_by() function to take a callable?

Answer 1

It turns out the Annotate method was the solution:

Post.objects.all().annotate(vote_tally=Sum('vote__value')).order_by('-vote_tally')