dm_scripts = ArrayField(models.TextField(blank=True, null=True), default=list)
I have a Django model, and I wanted to use the ArrayField to store a list of TextFiles. The order matters, and I've been asked to allow a user to reorder these. How would you do that?
I've googled and searched here, but found nothing. Even Django's official documentation doesn't mention this.
I know this question is old, but I was looking for an answer, found one and thought I'd post the solution in case it is useful to others
A Django Postgres ArrayField is basically a list (at least in your case), so once you access it like object.dm_scripts you can manipulate it like any other list. For example, if you need to sort something alphabetically, you can call:
ordered_array = sorted(object.dm_scripts)
ordered_array.save()
Afterwards the list items will stay in that order. You can call that and apply it anywhere necessary, in a view, a def save method or whatever.
After that it's up to your imagination. Implementation would really depend on the UX interaction. I think it would be easy to pass the list to a javascript front-end, have the user reorder them visually, then apply the new order to the list items (Or many surely more optimised methods).