django order by related field

Question

Hi,

I want to sort a QuerySet of contacts by a related field. But I do not know how. I tried it like this, but it does not work.

foundContacts.order_by("classification.kam")

Actually in a template I can access the kam value of a contact through contact.classification.kam since it is a OneToOne relationship.

The (simplified) models look like this:

class Classification(models.Model):
    kam = models.ForeignKey(User)
    contact = models.OneToOneField(Contact)

class Contact(models.Model):
    title = models.ForeignKey(Title, blank=True, null=True)
    first_name = models.CharField(max_length=200)
    last_name = models.CharField(max_length=200)

Answer 1

It should be:

foundContacts.order_by("classification__kam")

Here is a link for the Django docs on making queries that span relationships: http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.1/topics/db/queries/#lookups-that-span-relationships

You can also see some examples in the order_by reference:
http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.1/ref/models/querysets/#order-by-fields