Displaying model in a template.

[Solomon Mbak]

I have a code that looks like this:

class Courses(models.Model):
CourseName = models.CharField(max_length = 250)
CourseDescription = models.CharField(max_length = 250)



class Questions(models.Model):
CAT_CHOICES = models.ForeignKey("main.course_category", on_delete=models.CASCADE)
question = models.CharField(max_length = 250)
optiona = models.CharField(max_length = 100)
optionb = models.CharField(max_length = 100)
optionc = models.CharField(max_length = 100)
answer = models.CharField(max_length = 100)
catagory = models.CharField(max_length=20, choices = CAT_CHOICES)


The work well. The issue is with the views.py (I suspect).

def home(request):
choices = Questions.CAT_CHOICES
print(choices)
return render(request,
'quiz/home.html',
{'choices':choices})



ERRORS:
quiz.Questions.catagory: (fields.E004) 'choices' must be an iterable (e.g., a list or tuple).


What I want is to display the course names on the home.html.

Any help please.

[Adam Johnson]

Hi!

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In response to your question - the error message is telling you that the argument "choices" for your category field should not be a foreignkey, but a list - see the documentation and an example in https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/2.2/ref/models/fields/#choices  . The problem is thus in your models and not your view. The Django tutorial uses Question and Choice models and lists them in a template - I think this is similar to what you're trying to do - see https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/2.2/intro/tutorial02/ .

Thanks for your understanding,

Adam

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[Bhavesh Kumar]

Hello,


You must be aware of that choice should be a list or tuple in django model. In tuple it could be represented as (table_value, rendered_value) ,like [('c', 'cat'), ('d', 'dog')]

And I see you have initiated it with a foreign key.

Could you please show the values it is having ?


Regards,
Bhavesh Kumar