I'm very new to Django and am trying to figure out why I can call the keys in a dict in my template as expected, but looping through the dict does not produce any text, nor any error messages. I don't want to hard code the key names (i.e. below msgid in my template, because the dict is dynamic and so I only want to loop through it.
views.py
class Pymat_program(View):
def get(self, request, *args, **kwargs):
selected_xml = 'a_directory_to_my_file'
smsreport_dict = self.parse_xml_file(selected_xml)
html = self.populate_html_text(smsreport_dict)
return HttpResponse(html)
def populate_html_text(self, smsreport_dict):
t = get_template('template2.html')
html = t.render(smsreport_dict)
return html
template2.html
<p>MSGID: {{ msgid }}</p>
<p> Begin
{% for key, value in smsreport_dict %}
<tr>
<td> Key: {{ key }} </td>
</tr>
{% endfor %}
</p>End
In the template2.html you can see the msgid value (one of several values in smsreport_dict) being called, which is displayed on my page. But for some reason the smsreport_dict looping produces no text. Where am I going wrong?
smsreport_dict should be inside the Context you use in order to render the template:
...
html = t.render(Context({"smsreport_dict": smsreport_dict}))
...
Plus, you forgot to call .items when iterating through the dict in the template:
{% for key, value in smsreport_dict.items %}
...