Hi,
The model name is hidden in model.__name__ or model._meta.model_name, and
you can't access attributes starting with underscore in templates.
This might work:
from django.db.models import get_app, get_models
def index(request):
app = get_app('sampledb')
modeldict = {model._meta.model_name: model for model in get_models(app)}
return render(request, 'sampledb/index.html', {'my_models': modeldict)
Collin
On Sunday, December 21, 2014 8:44:58 PM UTC-6, llanitedave wrote:
>
> I'm trying to display a list of the models in my app on a web page,
> similar to the way the Django Admin does it. I'm not sure where the admin
> section is coded, which might be part of my problem.
>
> I'm using Django 1.7, and have built a very simple view:
>
> from django.db.models import get_app, get_models
>
> def index(request):
> app = get_app('sampledb')
> modellist = get_models(app)
> context = {'my_models': modellist}
> return render(request, 'sampledb/index.html', context)
>
> in my index.html page I created a table:
>
> {% if my_models %}
> <p>{{ my_models }}</p>
> <table>
> <thead>
> <tr>
> <th scope="col">Name</th>
> <th scope="col">Verbose Plural</th>
> </tr>
> </thead>
> <tbody>
> {% for model in my_models %}
> <tr>
> <td>{{ model.name }}</td>
> <td>{{ model.meta.verbose_name_plural }}</td>
> </tr>
> {% endfor %}
> </tbody>
> </table>
> {% endif %}
>
>
> When I run this, my webpage first displays the <p>{{ my_models }}</p>,
> showing a list of model classes, such as <class 'sampledb.models.Sites'>,
> <class 'sampledb.models.People'>, etc.
>
> I guess that's my first hint that getting attributes from the 'model.name'
> isn't going to display anything, and it doesn't. But it doesn't give an
> error, either.
>
> How do I dig into the class to retrieve the actual model so that I can
> display its attributes?
>
>
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