Django format a request in a list

Question

I need help to format a response of a django request, This is a exemple :

With a model like this:

Book(models):
    name = string
    author = string
    release = date

A request : Book.objects.filter(author='Hergé').value('name')

I got : [{'name':'Tintin au Tibet'}, {'name':'Tintin au Congo'}, {'name':'Tintin chez les Picarros'}]

I want this : ['Tintin au Tibet','Tintin au Congo','Tintin chez les Picarros']

My question: How to I get what I want by changing only the request ?

Answer 1

You can work with .values_list(…) ^[Django-doc]:

Book.objects.filter(author='Hergé').values_list('name', flat=True)

But usually it is not a good idea to use .values(…) or .values_list(…) to retrieve data, not even to serialize: it erodes the model layer, and thus will prevent fetching related objects, obtaining the display name, etc.