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Malik Rumi
Greetings, sports fans.
There is an old saying, three strikes and you're out. They also say the third time is the charm. Let’s see which one this is for me, shall we?
This is the 3rd time in the last two years that I have been stuck for more than a few days on a problem getting my data onto a template. (I’m obviously not a full time developer). Although the symptom is the same, they do not all seem to be precisely the same cause, but I don’t think that matters. What matters here is that clearly, I just plain don’t understand context. It seems like a simple concept, but I can’t seem to execute it routinely and effectively.
Here’s my view:
#!/usr/bin/python
#-*- coding: utf-8 -*-
from django.shortcuts import render
from .models import Jurisdiction
def statehome(request, twodigit):
state = Jurisdiction.objects.all()
ace = 'spades'
context={'state':state, 'ace':ace}
return render (request, 'statehome.html', context)
Twodigit is just the postal code that I use in the url. Nothing related to state or jurisdiction displays on the template. I put ‘ace’ in there just as a test, and ‘spades’ shows up bright and bold just like it should. Here is the relevant portion of the template:
this is what I get in the shell:
In [23]: J=Jurisdiction.objects.all()
In [27]: for state in J:
...: print(state.name)
...:
United States of America
Alabama
Alaska
Arizona
...etc…
It is not called for in this particular template, but I decided to put a for loop in there, too, just to test it:
{% for state in states %}
{{ state.name }}
{% endfor %}
You guessed it! Nothing.
According to Django Debug Toolbar, I have this context in my template:
{'ace':
'spades', 'state': '<<queryset of bench.Jurisdiction>>'}
But
that same Toolbar also says I only executed two sql queries: one for
the session and one for the user.
Earlier,
I discovered that a queryset of one is not the same as a single
object, and that it always helps to get the right name of your
object:
In
[3]: Jurisdiction.objects.filter(name="United States")
Out[3]:
<QuerySet []>
In
[5]: Jurisdiction.objects.get(name="United States")
DoesNotExist:
Jurisdiction matching query does not exist.
In
[6]: Jurisdiction.objects.get(name="United
States of America")
Out[6]:
<Jurisdiction: United States>
In
[7]: us=Jurisdiction.objects.get(name="United States of
America")
In
[8]: us.name
Out[8]:
'United States of America'
So
when I used ‘get’ instead of ‘filter’ in my view, it worked.
But that does not solve my problem. What happens when I want
a list of objects? Or
several different objects and their attributes?
Isn’t that supposed to be a queryset? Then how do I make them
show
up in the template? Why does my for loop and
state.name work in
the shell
with
objects.all(), but
neither
works in
the template?
I
don’t understand. I’m
sure it is staring me right in the face, and is obvious to you, but I
just plain don’t get it. So
if I could get an explanation, and a how to, that would be great. And
if you can point to a book, website, tutorial, whatever – not the
official docs, thank you, I can recite them in my sleep and clearly
I’m not getting it – that explains all this slowly, step by step,
big
picture and little picture, with
examples and an explanation of vocabulary, that would be really
great. Thanks.
Dylan Reinhold
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Malik Rumi
I would name my firstborn after you, but she's gotten used to her name already. ;-). THANK YOU!
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