Django 1.10 and above
Django documentation lists extra
as deprecated soon. (Thanks for pointing that out @seddonym, @Lucas03). I opened a ticket and this is the solution that jarshwah provided.
from django.db.models.functions import TruncMonth
from django.db.models import Count
Sales.objects
.annotate(month=TruncMonth('created')) # Truncate to month and add to select list
.values('month') # Group By month
.annotate(c=Count('id')) # Select the count of the grouping
.values('month', 'c') # (might be redundant, haven't tested) select month and count
Older versions
from django.db import connection
from django.db.models import Sum, Count
truncate_date = connection.ops.date_trunc_sql('month', 'created')
qs = Order.objects.extra({'month':truncate_date})
report = qs.values('month').annotate(Sum('total'), Count('pk')).order_by('month')
Edits
- Added count
- Added information for django >= 1.10