For example- My query changes for different tables at different instances. I have a string input which tells me which table I have to access at a particular instance, how do I query in django with such varying table?
Usually we query models.Person.objects.filter(), where table_name=Person(which remains same in every query). How do we query when table_name is a variable?
You can get model by it's name using django apps.get_model method
>>> from django.apps import apps
>>> model_you_want = apps.get_model(app_label='app_name', model_name='model_name_string')
>>> model_you_want.objects.filter()
with eval you can run a python statement which is in form of string.
I've tested the following on python 3 and django 1.8.x exec keyword also works on python 2
table_name = 'Person'
query = "{0}.objects.all()".format(table_name)
result = eval(query)
