Hi. Since you do have show post url, I would create random view just to redirect to show post view with random post id.
7.1.2018 5.49 ap. "Ronnie Raney" <[email protected]> kirjoitti: > Greetings! My first time using this forum. Using Django 2.0 for a project. > I'm a beginner so I appreciate your patience. > > I have a type of blog app, but I don't want the routing/url to be > traditional. I want the user to be able to hit a button that says "Random > Post" which takes them to a random blog post. > > I'm not at all sure of the best way to approach this, but I'll share what > I have for context. This blog works because I have class-based views using > ListView and DetailView. I have a template that shows ALL of the blog posts > in chronological order as a ListView, and I have a template that shows each > blog post as a DetailView. It works great but I want this "random" > functionality for my routing. > > *Model*: I created a model called Post with all the typical fields, > including a unique autofield. My intention was to randomly select a pk > using this autofield. I thought about using a property to do some of the > querying/logic for my random functionality, but I'm not sure if this is the > best way to do it. > > *View: *I have created a custom method-type view, but it doesn't work. > > def random_post(request): >> >> posts = Post.objects.all() >> >> shuffle (posts) >> >> random_obj = posts.first() >> >> context = {'random_obj': random_obj,} >> >> return render(request, 'blog/random_post.html', context) >> >> > *URL: *I have a 'path' type urlpattern... > > path('posts/random_post/', views.random_post, name='random_post'), >> > > *TEMPLATE: *Here is the link to my randomly selected blog post... > > <a class="btn btn-primary btn-lg" href="{% url 'random_post' %}" >> role="button">Random Blog Post</a> > > > The "Detail" template for my blog post has nothing special. The routing > seems to work just fine, but the fields are empty. No data is being sent > from the model to the view. > > FYI, this is actually not a blog. I'm using blog logic for the sake of > conversation, but I have a very specialized reason for wanting to choose > random objects and render them in a view. > > Thanks in advance! > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Django users" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/django-users. > To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/ > msgid/django-users/c68e062a-c2a3-434e-aa70-cfcf3e10e600%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/django-users/c68e062a-c2a3-434e-aa70-cfcf3e10e600%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/django-users. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/django-users/CAHn91oeMjKMpQvwhJVqry_US-XW1OP5q2jgyxYZrAwvQoX6UWA%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
