Roadmap¶

Mid-term¶

Here we have all the features that is slightly further out, in no particular order:

• Performance work:

  • [done] Sub queries

  • [done] Change to all-parametrized queries

  • Faster MySQL driver (possibly based on mysqlclient)

  • Consider using Cython to accelerate critical loops

• Convenience/Ease-Of-Use work:

  • Make DELETE honour limit and offset

  • [done] .filter(field=None) to work as expected

• Expand in the init framework:

  • Ability to have Management Commands

  • Ability to define Management Commands

  • Make it simple to inspect Models and Management Commands without using private APIs.

• Migrations

  • Built-in migrations shipped (schema, autodetector, CLI, data migrations).

  • Follow-ups: optimization/merging tools, fixture support, expanded docs/examples.

• Serialization support

  • Add deserialization support

  • Make default serializers support some validation

  • Provide clean way to replace serializers with custom solution

• Extra DB support

  • CockroachDB

  • Firebird

• Enhanced test support

  • hypothesis strategy builder

• Fields

  • Expand on standard provided fields

• Documentation

  • Tutorials

Long-term¶

Become the de facto Python AsyncIO ORM.