Django: How to follow ForeignKey('self') backwards

django, django-models, foreign-keys

Solution

By default, django will call the reverse the model name, followed by "_set", so it would be

Achievement.objects.get(pk="1").achievement_set

If that doesn't suit you, use the `related_name` optional argument to `models.ForeignKey`:

class Achievement(MyBaseModel):
    parent_achievement = models.ForeignKey(
        'self', 
        blank=True, 
        null=True, 
        help_text="An achievement that must be done before this one is achieved",
        related_name="child_achievement_set"
    ) # long name since parent is reserved

Achievement.objects.get(pk="1").child_achievement_set

Problem

``` class Achievement(MyBaseModel): parent_achievement = models.ForeignKey('self', blank=True, null=True, help_text="An achievement that must be done before this one is achieved") # long name since parent is reserved ``` I can do : ``` Achievement.objects.get(pk="1").parent_achievement ``` which is great. But how do I get all the children? ``` Achievement.objects.get(pk="1").parent_achievement_set ``` doesn't work (and probably should have some more notation around it), and I didn't see too much when searching. Is it possible? Fall into SQL?

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