I have this method on the view page. It works fine and shows everything correctly but I want to convert it into a generic list view so that I could apply pagination to it.
Here is the function :`
#views.py
def index(request):
all_artists = Artist.objects.all()
all_songs = Song.objects.all()
all_albums = Album.objects.all()
return render(request, 'index.html', {'all_albums':all_albums,'all_songs':all_songs, 'all_artists':all_artists})
So I followed some tutorials and ended up with this:
#new views.py
class IndexView(ListView):
template_name = 'index.html'
context_object_name = 'home_list'
queryset = Artist.objects.all()
def get_context_data(self, **kwargs):
context = super(IndexView, self).get_context_data(**kwargs)
context['all_artists']=Artist.objects.all()
context['all_songs']=Song.objects.all()
context['all_albums']=Album.objects.all()
Though it compiles without any error, when I render the page, the context object does not gets rendered. Your help is very much appreciated! Thankyou
EDIT(13-APR-17): Thankyou guys! It finally worked with some little modifications.
class IndexView(generic.ListView):
template_name = 'index.html'
context_object_name = 'home_list'
queryset = Artist.objects.all()
def get_context_data(self, **kwargs):
context = super(IndexView, self).get_context_data(**kwargs)
context['all_artists']=Artist.objects.all()
context['all_songs']=Song.objects.all()
context['all_albums']=Album.objects.all()
return context
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urls.py in urls.py from your django app you need to include a url that references to your views and include this urls.py to your django project main urls.py.
#urls.py
from django.conf.urls import url
from .views import IndexView
urlpatterns = [
url(r'^path/$', IndexView.as_view(), name="index"),
]
Then in your views.py override the variable paginate_by
#views.py
class IndexView(ListView):
template_name = 'index.html'
context_object_name = 'home_list'
queryset = Artist.objects.all()
paginate_by = 10 # Number of objects for each page
def get_context_data(self, **kwargs):
context = super(IndexView, self).get_context_data(**kwargs)
context['all_artists']=Artist.objects.all()
context['all_songs']=Song.objects.all()
context['all_albums']=Album.objects.all()
return context
Finally in your index.html add the pagination {% pagination_for page_obj %}
{% block content %}
<!--some content -->
<!--begin paginator -->
{% pagination_for page_obj %}
<!--end paginator-->
{% endblock %}
Your get_context_data() needs to return the context. So if this is your exact code, you need to add return context to it