How To Use Django_filters.datefilter?

I'm trying to use django_filter's DateFilter to filter by an exact date, but could not get it to return any result. myapp/models.py from django.db import models class Event(models

Solution 1:

Found the issue.

The 'start' field is a DateTimeField. So when querying only for the date, no match is found because it never matches the time.

For example:

If I enter 01/14/2012, it looks for start date datetime.date(2012, 01, 14, 0, 0), but the actual start date may be datetime.datetime(2012, 01, 14, 21, 0, tzinfo=<UTC>).

Answer :

Use lookup_type='startswith' or 'lookup_type='contains' (source) but 'contains' appears to be faster

Class EventFilter(django_filters.FilterSet):
    start = django_filters.DateFilter(
        'start', label=_('With start date'),
        lookup_type='contains'# use contains
    )

    ...

Solution 2:

You can filter datetime field by date

start = django_filters.DateFilter('start__date')