Django count RawQuerySet

Question

Hay, I'm using django 1.2 and i want to know how to count rows from a raw queryset(RawQuerySet).

The traditional .count() method doesn't work.

Heres my query

query = "SELECT *, ((ACOS(SIN(%s * PI() / 180) * SIN(lat * PI() / 180) + COS(%s * PI() / 180) * COS(lat * PI() / 180) * COS((%s - lon) * PI() / 180)) * 180 / PI()) * 60 * 1.1515) AS distance FROM app_car WHERE price BETWEEN %s AND %s HAVING distance<=%s ORDER BY distance ASC"

cars = Car.objects.raw(query, [lat, lat, lon, min_price, max_price, miles])

return HttpResponse( cars )

And its returning

Car_Deferred_model_id_user_id object

Any ideas?

Answer 1

Use the 'len()' function. This would give:

query = "SELECT *, ((ACOS(SIN(%s * PI() / 180) * SIN(lat * PI() / 180) + COS(%s * PI() / 180) * COS(lat * PI() / 180) * COS((%s - lon) * PI() / 180)) * 180 / PI()) * 60 * 1.1515) AS distance FROM app_car WHERE price BETWEEN %s AND %s HAVING distance<=%s ORDER BY distance ASC"

cars = Car.objects.raw(query, [lat, lat, lon, min_price, max_price, miles])

return HttpResponse(len(list(cars))

Aside: there's some useful information on the Django 1.2 Model.objects.raw() method at: http://djangoadvent.com/1.2/smoothing-curve/