Querying within a list of dicts within a Django model JSONField

Question

I'm trying to query an element within a list of dicts in a Django JSONField. I can find similar questions to mine but not one that covers what I'm trying to do. It seems like it should be simple and fairly common so I suspect I'm missing something simple.

So. to expand slightly on the example in the Django docs

Let's say I have a Dog model with a JSONField named data and it has some data like so:

Dog.objects.create(name='Rufus',
    data = {"other_pets":
            [{"name", "Fishy"},
             {"name": "Rover"},
             {"name": "Dave"}]}
)

There's a key named "other_pets" which is a list of dicts. I would like to write a query which returns any models which includes a dict with the key name=="Dave"

I am able to directly do this if I refer to the element by the index, eg:

Dog.objects.filter(data__other_pets__2="Dave")

Would return me the row, but I need to reference the index of the list element, and both the position of the item I'm looking up, and the size of the list vary among models.

I thought that maybe:

Dog.objects.filter(data__other_pets__contains={"name":"Dave"})

Would work but this returns no elements.

Is what I'm trying to do possible? As an aside, is it possible to add an index for queries like this?

Thanks!

Answer 1

Since other_pets is a list, you should pass a list to the contains filter

Dog.objects.filter(data__other_pets__contains=[{"name":"Dave"}])