SQL Query logic to Django ORM Query logic - sql

Question

I have tried to think about how the following SQL query would be structured as a Django ORM query but I have had no luck in my multiple attempts. Can anyone help?
SELECT targets_genetarget.gene, count(targets_targetprediction.gene) as total
FROM targets_genetarget
LEFT OUTER JOIN targets_targetprediction on targets_targetprediction.gene =
targets_genetarget.gene
WHERE list_name LIKE %s
GROUP BY targets_genetarget.gene
class GeneTarget(models.Model):
list_name = models.CharField(max_length=100)
gene = models.CharField(max_length=50)
date_added = models.DateField(auto_now=True)
class Meta:
unique_together = (('list_name', 'gene'),)
def __str__(self):
return self.list_name
class TargetPrediction(models.Model):
specimen_id = models.CharField(max_length=100)
patient_peptide = models.ForeignKey(Peptide, on_delete=models.CASCADE, verbose_name="Peptide", related_name="predictions")
allele = models.ForeignKey(Allele, on_delete=models.CASCADE, verbose_name="Allele", related_name="predictions")
gene = models.CharField(max_length=50)
class Meta:
unique_together = (('specimen_id', 'patient_peptide', 'allele', 'gene'),)
def get_absolute_url(self):
return f'/samples/specid-{self.specimen_id}'
def __str__(self):
return (f'Specimen: {self.specimen_id} Peptide: {self.patient_peptide} Allele: {self.allele} Gene: {self.gene} ')

Answer 1

There's nothing stopping you declaring the TargetPrediction.gene field as a foreign key using the to_field attribute, so you wouldn't need to change the data at all:
class TargetPrediction(models.Model):
...
gene = models.ForeignKey("GeneTarget", to_field="gene")
Now your query simply becomes:
GeneTarget.objects.filter(list_name="whatever").values("gene").annotate(total=Count("targetprediction"))