Filtering with `MyModel.objects.filter(content='...')` does not match any models

[dcki]

Example:

Given a model with a compressed field named content:

>>> m = MyModel.objects.last()
>>> m.id
123
>>> m.content
'abc'
>>> len(list(MyModel.objects.filter(content=m.content)))
0

That should be at least 1, not 0.

These still work though, as documented:

>>> len(list(MyModel.objects.filter(content__in=[m.content])))
1
>>> len(list(MyModel.objects.filter(content__startswith=m.content)))
1

[davidfstr]

MyModel.objects.filter(content=m.content)

I suspect you may need to rewrite this query as one of:

• MyModel.objects.filter(content__exact=m.content)
• MyModel.objects.filter(content__iexact=m.content)
• MyModel.objects.filter(content=Compress(m.content))

Even assuming the above is true, I agree that it's confusing for the original query to not work. I'll plan to update the documentation.

[davidfstr]

• MyModel.objects.filter(content__exact=m.content)
• MyModel.objects.filter(content__iexact=m.content)

Actually these won't work because apparently neither the exact nor the iexact filters are currently overridden by the implementation.

That should be fixed too, since __exact and __iexact are useful.