[Fixed]-Django: Paginator + raw SQL query

Here is a RawPaginator class I made that overrides Paginator to work with raw queries. It takes one additional argument, count, which is the total count of your query. It doesn’t slice the object_list because you must paginate in your raw query via OFFSET and LIMIT.

from django.core.paginator import Paginator

class RawPaginator(Paginator):
    def __init__(self, object_list, per_page, count, **kwargs):
        super().__init__(object_list, per_page, **kwargs)
        self.raw_count = count

    def _get_count(self):
        return self.raw_count
    count = property(_get_count)

    def page(self, number):
        number = self.validate_number(number)
        return self._get_page(self.object_list, number, self)

I don’t know about Django 1.1 but if you can wait for 1.2 (which shouldn’t be that long anymore) you can make use of objects.raw() as described in this article and in the development documentation.

Otherwise, if you query is not too complex, maybe using the extra clause is sufficient.

I also wanted to plug a PaginatedRawQuerySet which I wrote (please consider this as an alpha version). This adds the slicing ability to a raw queryset. Please refer to this answer – which I wrote for another question with a similar requirement – in order to understand how it works (especially the “A word of caution” section in the end).

from django.db import models
from django.db.models import sql
from django.db.models.query import RawQuerySet


class PaginatedRawQuerySet(RawQuerySet):
    def __init__(self, raw_query, **kwargs):
        super(PaginatedRawQuerySet, self).__init__(raw_query, **kwargs)
        self.original_raw_query = raw_query
        self._result_cache = None

    def __getitem__(self, k):
        """
        Retrieves an item or slice from the set of results.
        """
        if not isinstance(k, (slice, int,)):
            raise TypeError
        assert ((not isinstance(k, slice) and (k >= 0)) or
                (isinstance(k, slice) and (k.start is None or k.start >= 0) and
                 (k.stop is None or k.stop >= 0))), \
            "Negative indexing is not supported."

        if self._result_cache is not None:
            return self._result_cache[k]

        if isinstance(k, slice):
            qs = self._clone()
            if k.start is not None:
                start = int(k.start)
            else:
                start = None
            if k.stop is not None:
                stop = int(k.stop)
            else:
                stop = None
            qs.set_limits(start, stop)
            return qs

        qs = self._clone()
        qs.set_limits(k, k + 1)
        return list(qs)[0]

    def __iter__(self):
        self._fetch_all()
        return iter(self._result_cache)

    def count(self):
        if self._result_cache is not None:
            return len(self._result_cache)

        return self.model.objects.count()

    def set_limits(self, start, stop):
        limit_offset = ''

        new_params = tuple()
        if start is None:
            start = 0
        elif start > 0:
            new_params += (start,)
            limit_offset = ' OFFSET %s'
        if stop is not None:
            new_params = (stop - start,) + new_params
            limit_offset = 'LIMIT %s' + limit_offset

        self.params = self.params + new_params
        self.raw_query = self.original_raw_query + limit_offset
        self.query = sql.RawQuery(sql=self.raw_query, using=self.db, params=self.params)

    def _fetch_all(self):
        if self._result_cache is None:
            self._result_cache = list(super().__iter__())

    def __repr__(self):
        return '<%s: %s>' % (self.__class__.__name__, self.model.__name__)

    def __len__(self):
        self._fetch_all()
        return len(self._result_cache)

    def _clone(self):
        clone = self.__class__(raw_query=self.raw_query, model=self.model, using=self._db, hints=self._hints,
                               query=self.query, params=self.params, translations=self.translations)
        return clone