Are asynchronous Django model queries possible?
There aren't strictly asynchronous operations as you've described, but I think you can achieve the same effect by using django's in_bulk query operator, which takes a list of ids to query.
Something like this for the urls.py:
urlpatterns = patterns('', (r'^compare/(\d+)/(\d+)/$', 'my.compareview'),)And this for the view:
def compareview(request, id1, id2): # in_bulk returns a dict: { obj_id1: <MyModel instance>, # obj_id2: <MyModel instance> } # the SQL pulls all at once, rather than sequentially... arguably # better than async as it pulls in one DB hit, rather than two # happening at the same time comparables = MyModel.objects.in_bulk([id1, id2]) o1, o2 = (comparables.get(id1), comparables.get(id2))