Django: filtering queryset by “parameter has part of field's value”?

Question

I have a simple model:

class Place(models.Model):
    name = models.CharField()

and it has some representative names like Starbucks , McDonald's , etc. as shown below.

 id |   name   
----+----------
  1 | Starbucks
  2 | McDonald's
  3 | ...  

And I also have some place names as query parameter, for example:

• Starbucks Pike Place
• McDonald's Sand Lake Road
• Another Starbucks Out There

What I'm trying to achieve is to filter/get appropriate Place object with given parameters, determine whether it has part of place's name .

How can I do this with django's QuerySet API?
Have checked references and forum to find something like below but was no luck:

Place.objects.get(name__ispartof=PARAM)
# or
Place.objects.get(PARAM__contains=Q('name'))

In Postgres, my case may equivalent to:

SELECT id FROM table
WHERE 'Starbucks Pike Place' LIKE CONCAT('%', name, '%')

Should I have to perform a raw() SQL query for this?

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

I think I've found a horrible way to do it in the ORM without needing raw SQL. Hopefully someone else will be able to find something better.

from django.db.models import ExpressionWrapper, CharField, Value, F

param = 'Starbucks Pike Place'
myparam = ExpressionWrapper(Value(param), output_field=CharField())
Place.objects.annotate(param=myparam).filter(param__contains=F('username'))

Answer 2

Place.objects.get(name__contains=PARAM) should do it. Note that you can also use icontains instead of contains if you'd like the query to be case-insensitive.