Django filter vs get in models

Question

Im a newbie to Django and would like to understand what is the difference between filter vs get

Get

Entry.objects.get(id__exact=14)

Filter

Entry.objects.filter(id__exact=14)

What difference the above statement makes?

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

the get only brings an element that is equal to what you're looking for but the filter brings everything related to that item you want.

filter returns many things found. get returns only one thing to what you're looking for

for example:

GET

Task.objects.get(id=1,status=1)

Filter

Groups.objects.filter(user=1)

Answer 2

If you know it's one object that matches your query, use get. It will fail if it's more than one, and gives the error like this:

Traceback (most recent call last):

    File "<console>", line 1, in <module>
    File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/django/db/models/manager.py", line 143, in         get
    return self.get_query_set().get(*args, **kwargs)
    File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/django/db/models/query.py", line 407, in get
    (self.model._meta.object_name, num))
    MultipleObjectsReturned: get() returned more than one Poll -- it returned 2!

Otherwise use filter, which gives you a list of objects.