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@@ -152,8 +152,24 @@ applied, Django uses the ``output_field`` attribute. We didn't need to specify
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this here as it didn't change, but supposing we were applying ``AbsoluteValue``
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to some field which represents a more complex type (for example a point
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relative to an origin, or a complex number) then we may have wanted to specify
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-``output_field = FloatField``, which will ensure that further lookups like
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-``abs__lte`` behave as they would for a ``FloatField``.
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+that the transform returns a ``FloatField`` type for further lookups. This can
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+be done by adding an ``output_field`` attribute to the transform::
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+ from django.db.models import FloatField, Transform
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+ class AbsoluteValue(Transform):
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+ lookup_name = 'abs'
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+ def as_sql(self, qn, connection):
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+ lhs, params = qn.compile(self.lhs)
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+ return "ABS(%s)" % lhs, params
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+
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+ @property
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+ def output_field(self):
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+ return FloatField()
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+
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+This ensures that further lookups like ``abs__lte`` behave as they would for
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+a ``FloatField``.
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Writing an efficient abs__lt lookup
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