from django.db import connection, transaction from django.db.models import get_model ProductRecord = get_model('analytics', 'ProductRecord') Product = get_model('catalogue', 'Product') class Calculator(object): # Map of field name to weight weights = {'num_views': 1, 'num_basket_additions': 3, 'num_purchases': 5} def __init__(self, logger): self.logger = logger self.cursor = connection.cursor() def run(self): self.calculate_scores() self.update_product_models() def calculate_scores(self): self.logger.info("Calculating product scores") # Build the "SET ..." part of the SQL statement weighted_sum = " + ".join( ["%s*`%s`" % (weight, field) for field, weight in self.weights.items()]) ctx = {'table': ProductRecord._meta.db_table, 'weighted_total': weighted_sum, 'total_weight': sum(self.weights.values())} sql = '''UPDATE `%(table)s` SET score = %(weighted_total)s / %(total_weight)s''' % ctx self.logger.debug(sql) self.cursor.execute(sql) transaction.commit_unless_managed() def update_product_models(self): self.logger.info("Updating product records") qs = ProductRecord.objects.all() for record in qs: record.product.score = record.score record.product.save() self.logger.info("Updated scores for %d products" % qs.count())