How to make a custom query using django-nonrel and mongodb
I found one answer to this question, let me now if there is a better one.
As documented here assign your objects to the MongoDBManager - http://django-mongodb-engine.github.com/mongodb-engine/cool-stuff.html#included-mongodb-batteries
from django_mongodb_engine.contrib import MongoDBManagerclass MyModel(models.Model): objects = MongoDBManager()Then you can do raw queries like this:
MyModel.objects.raw_query({'loc' : {'$near' : [50,50]}})A different approach I guess would be to go directly to pymongo:http://api.mongodb.org/python/1.10%2B/examples/geo.html
Finally I ended up with this query:
nearest = MyModel.objects.raw_query( {'loc' : { '$within' :{ #within .05 degrees of lat/lon '$center' : [{'long' : long,'lat' : lat}, .05] } })[:10] #get up to 10 results