retrieve data from manytomany field in the sequence of it was saved django - python-3.x

Question

I Have a Invoice system where employee or staff can create invoice and can add multiple product and quantity for the specific customer . as i am using mysql i cant take json data or an array data .so i was taking the quantity and price( after discount and other modificaion) as a string and then when showing or printing the invoice i used regex to find the quantity and price .i added product ids in a manytomay field from where i am getting the product name and selling price. while showing the data on printing page in when i use zip the products are showing as the id of the product so i want to retrive the data the way it is being saved . or could you tell me any way to do it more easier way?
Here is my models.py
class Invoice(models.Model):
customers = models.ForeignKey(Customer, on_delete=models.CASCADE)
products = models.ManyToManyField(Product)
total = models.FloatField()
date = models.DateField(auto_now_add=True)
amounts = models.CharField(max_length=500, default="00")
quantity = models.CharField(max_length=500, blank=True)
def save(self, *args, **kwargs):
if not Invoice.objects.count():
self.id = 20210001
else:
self.id = Invoice.objects.last().id + 1
super(Invoice, self).save(*args, **kwargs)
Here is my views.py of printing page function
def final_billing(request, id=None):
pk = id
obj = Invoice.objects.get(id=pk)
products = obj.products.all()
customer = Customer.objects.get(id=obj.customers.id)
amn = obj.amounts
qt = obj.quantity
list_of_comma = re.findall("[\d+.+\d]+", amn)
amnts = [float(n) for n in list_of_comma]
list_of_quantity = re.findall('[0-9]+', qt)
qty = [int(n) for n in list_of_quantity if n.isdigit()]
products = list(products)
both = zip(products,amnts,qty)
return render(request, 'finalbill.html',{'bills': obj, "due": customer, "both": both})
I want it to be retrieved the product objects in the sequence of it was saved

Answer 1

The query can only be sorted with a specific field, Django cannot guess otherwise, so in your case the best case is to sort your products by the date they were created, for example :
obj.products.all().order_by("created")
This suppose that you have a "created" field that is added each time a product is save in your database.
Another way of doing it is to specify the through option, from the documentation :
you can use the through option to specify the Django model that represents the intermediate table that you want to use.
The most common use for this option is when you want to associate extra data with a many-to-many relationship.
The through table contains an the primary key of the relation, you can use that to retrieve the sequence in which your objects were added.
for example :
from django.db import models
class Person(models.Model):
name = models.CharField(max_length=50)
class Group(models.Model):
name = models.CharField(max_length=128)
members = models.ManyToManyField(
Person,
through='Membership',
through_fields=('group', 'person'),
)
class Membership(models.Model):
group = models.ForeignKey(Group, on_delete=models.CASCADE)
person = models.ForeignKey(Person, on_delete=models.CASCADE)
inviter = models.ForeignKey(
Person,
on_delete=models.CASCADE,
related_name="membership_invites",
)
invite_reason = models.CharField(max_length=64)
Through Field