I am building a Q&A website as my first django project for practice (bad choice for a first project), however I created a question model(PoliticsPost) and an answer model(Answer) and I linked the answer model with the question model using a foreign key and the answer instances with the question instances using the ID of the question being answered. The logic of the website is that the questions are displayed in a template (list view), and each question is a link to its description (detail view) and all the answers associated with it (list view). The issue is that, although I inserted both the question context name and the answer context name in the template, the browser only renders the questions detail view.
(Sorry if this is confusing, it is because I am confused in the first place)
Here is the code:
views.py:
class Home(ListView):
model= PoliticsPost
context_object_name = 'politicsposts'
ordering = ['-date_posted']
paginate_by = 5
def about(request):
return render(request, 'lisk_templates/about_template.html')
@login_required
def interests(request):
return render(request, 'lisk_templates/interests_template.html')
class Profile(LoginRequiredMixin,ListView):
model = PoliticsPost
context_object_name = 'politicsposts'
paginate_by = 5
ordering = ['-date_posted']
class Outerprofile(ListView):
model = PoliticsPost
context_object_name = 'politicsposts'
paginate_by = 5
def get_queryset(self):
user = get_object_or_404(User, username=self.kwargs.get('username'))
return PoliticsPost.objects.filter(author=user).order_by('-date_posted')
#POLITICS-------------
class Politics_topic(ListView):
model= PoliticsPost
context_object_name = 'politicsposts'
ordering = ['-date_posted']
paginate_by = 5
class Politics_post_details(DetailView):
model = PoliticsPost
context_object_name = 'politicsposts'
class Questionpolitics(LoginRequiredMixin, CreateView):
model = PoliticsPost
fields =['question','description']
success_url = reverse_lazy('Politics_topic')
def form_valid(self, form):
form.instance.author = self.request.user
return super().form_valid(form)
class Updatepolitics(LoginRequiredMixin,UserPassesTestMixin,UpdateView):
model = PoliticsPost
fields = ['question','description']
success_url = reverse_lazy('Politics_topic')
def form_valid(self, form):
form.instance.author = self.request.user
return super().form_valid(form)
def test_func(self):
post = self.get_object()
if self.request.user == post.author:
return True
return False
class Deletepoliticspost(LoginRequiredMixin, UserPassesTestMixin, DeleteView):
model = PoliticsPost
success_url = reverse_lazy('Politics_topic')
def test_func(self):
post = self.get_object()
if self.request.user == post.author:
return True
return False
#ANSWER
class CreateAnswer(LoginRequiredMixin,CreateView):
model = Answer
fields = ['content']
success_url = reverse_lazy('Lisk home')
question_id = 'qid'
pk_url_kwarg = 'aid'
def form_valid(self, form):
try:
question = PoliticsPost.objects.get(pk=self.kwargs[self.question_id])
except PoliticsPost.DoesNotExist:
form.add_error(None, 'Invalid question')
return self.form_invalid(form)
form.instance.post = question
form.instance.author = self.request.user
return super().form_valid(form)
class Answers(ListView):
model = Answer
context_object_name = 'answers'
ordering = ['-date_posted']
def get_queryset(self):
question_id = get_object_or_404(PoliticsPost, pk=self.kwargs.get('qid'))
return Answer.objects.filter(post_id=question_id)
urls.py(not root):
path('politicspost/<int:pk>/',views.Politics_post_details.as_view(template_name='lisk_templates/politics_post_details.html'),
name='politics_post_details'),
urls.py(not root): path('politicspost/<int:qid>',views.Answers.as_view(template_name='lisk_templates/politics_post_details.html'),name ='answerslist')
politics_post_template.html:
{%extends "lisk_templates/base.html"%}
{% block title %}
Post Details
{% endblock title %}
{%block body%}
<h1 id="page_topic">Page topic</h1>
<div class="feed">
<div class="question">
<h1>{{ politicsposts.question }}</h1>
<p><img src="{{ politicsposts.author.profile.image.url }}" height="30" width="30">
<br>
By <a href="{% url 'Outerprofile' politicsposts.author.username %}">{{ politicsposts.author }}</a> | <span>{{ politicsposts.date_posted }}</span></p>
<h4>{{ politicsposts.description }}</h4>
<hr>
<a href="{% url 'Answer' politicsposts.id %}" class="speciallink">Answer</a>
{% if politicsposts.author == user %}
<a href="{% url 'updatepoliticspost' politicsposts.id %}" class="speciallink" style="fontsize:14px;">Edit</a>
<a href="{% url 'deletepoliticspost' politicsposts.id %}" class="speciallink">Delete</a>
{% endif %}
<hr>
<h2>Answers:</h2>
<hr>
{% for answer in answers %}
{% if answer.post == politicsposts %}
{{ answer.author }}{{ answer.content }}
{% endif %}
{% endfor %}
</div>
</div>
{% endblock body %}
models.py:
class PoliticsPost(models.Model):
question = models.CharField(max_length=200)
description = models.TextField(null = True , blank=True)
date_posted =models.DateTimeField(default=timezone.now)
author = models.ForeignKey(User,on_delete=models.CASCADE)
#solution = models.TextField(null=True,blank=True)
def __str__(self):
return self.question
class Answer(models.Model):
content = models.TextField(null=True,blank=True)
post = models.ForeignKey(PoliticsPost, on_delete=models.CASCADE)
author = models.ForeignKey(User,on_delete=models.CASCADE)
date_posted = models.DateTimeField(default=timezone.now)
post_id = post.pk
I know for sure that the answers are linked to a question because when I check the admin page I can see all the answers to a specific question.
Thanks in advance.
