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diff --git a/docs/api-guide/filtering.md b/docs/api-guide/filtering.md index 53ea7cbc..ed946368 100644 --- a/docs/api-guide/filtering.md +++ b/docs/api-guide/filtering.md @@ -140,6 +140,14 @@ For more details on using filter sets see the [django-filter documentation][djan --- +### Filtering and object lookups + +Note that if a filter backend is configured for a view, then as well as being used to filter list views, it will also be used to filter the querysets used for returning a single object. + +For instance, given the previous example, and a product with an id of `4675`, the following URL would either return the corresponding object, or return a 404 response, depending on if the filtering conditions were met by the given product instance: + + http://example.com/api/products/4675/?category=clothing&max_price=10.00 + ## Overriding the initial queryset Note that you can use both an overridden `.get_queryset()` and generic filtering together, and everything will work as expected. For example, if `Product` had a many-to-many relationship with `User`, named `purchase`, you might want to write a view like this: |