Django How to see the session data insted of the object reference

Question

Im trying to start using session in django, Im trying to see the data in my session but im just getting the object reference not the data

console:

<cart.cart.Cart object at 0x7f6994753160>

views.py

def cart_view(request):
    cart = Cart(request)
    print(cart)
    if request.user.is_authenticated:
        return render(request, 'cart/cart_page.html')
    else:
        return redirect('account:login')

cart.py

class Cart:
    def __init__(self, request):

        self.session = request.session
        cart = self.session.get('cart')
        if not cart :
            cart = self.session['cart'] = {}  #cria a sessão cart
        self.product = cart

you can override the `__str__` and `__repr__` methods of any class you want in python — Joran Beasley, Sep 26 '22 at 18:22
Does this answer your question? [How do I change the string representation of a Python class?](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4912852/how-do-i-change-the-string-representation-of-a-python-class) — Code-Apprentice, Sep 26 '22 at 18:29

score 3 · Answer 1 · answered Sep 28 '22 at 12:43

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print(request.session.items())

answered Sep 28 '22 at 12:43

Dinky Arora

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score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Sep 26 '22 at 18:24

you can override the __str__ method on anyclass to control how it is converted to a string... you can also override the __repr__ method if you need to as well

class Cart:
    def __init__(self, request):

        self.session = request.session
        cart = self.session.get('cart')
        if not cart :
            cart = self.session['cart'] = {}  #cria a sessão cart
        self.product = cart

   def __str__(self):
       return f"<CartObject {self.product}>"

...
print(cart)

Ali Kocak · Answer 3 · 2022-10-01T14:18:20.023

You can define new method like get_product- for your Cart class to get your class attribute

For example

class Cart:
    def __init__(self, request):

        self.session = request.session
        cart = self.session.get('cart')
        if not cart :
            cart = self.session['cart'] = {}  #cria a sessão cart
        self.product = cart

    def get_product(self):
        return self.product

And then you can use get_product method after create new object from Cart class:

def cart_view(request):
    cart = Cart(request)
    print(cart.get_product()) # this line where you call your new method 
    if request.user.is_authenticated:
        return render(request, 'cart/cart_page.html')
    else:
        return redirect('account:login')

or you can just override str function:

class Cart:
    def __init__(self, request):

        self.session = request.session
        cart = self.session.get('cart')
        if not cart :
            cart = self.session['cart'] = {}  #cria a sessão cart
        self.product = cart

    def __str__(self):
        return f"{self.product}"

now you can just print out your cart object, it will print your product

def cart_view(request):
    cart = Cart(request)
    print(cart)
    if request.user.is_authenticated:
        return render(request, 'cart/cart_page.html')
    else:
        return redirect('account:login')

@kaynanfeliperodriguesvieira they mean you would then do `print(cart.get_product())` but you could also just do `print(cart.product)` — Joran Beasley, Sep 26 '22 at 18:57
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Django How to see the session data insted of the object reference

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