How to create a custom range

Oscar ships with a range model that represents a set of products from your catalogue. Using the dashboard, this can be configured to be:

  1. The whole catalogue

  2. A subset of products selected by ID/SKU (CSV uploads can be used to do this)

  3. A subset of product categories

Often though, a shop may need merchant-specific ranges such as:

  • All products subject to reduced-rate VAT

  • All books by a Welsh author

  • DVDs that have an exclamation mark in the title

These are contrived but you get the picture.

Custom range interface

A custom range must:

  • have a name attribute

  • have a contains_product method that takes a product instance and return a boolean

  • have a num_products method that returns the number of products in the range or None if such a query would be too expensive.

  • have an all_products method that returns a queryset of all products in the range.

Example:

class ExclamatoryProducts(object):
    name = "Products including a '!'"

    def contains_product(self, product):
        return "!" in product.title

    def num_products(self):
        return self.all_products().count()

    def all_products(self):
        return Product.objects.filter(title__icontains="!")

Create range instance

To make this range available to be used in offers, do the following:

from oscar.apps.offer.custom import create_range

create_range(ExclamatoryProducts)

Now you should see this range in the dashboard for ranges and offers. Custom ranges are not editable in the dashboard but can be deleted.

Deploying custom ranges

To avoid manual steps in each of your test/stage/production environments, use Django’s data migrations to create ranges.