Re: Simple Search Feature

I would do something simitar to: class SongListView(ListView): model = Song context_object_name = 'songs' template_name = 'songs/song_list.html' def get_queryset(self): qs = super().get_queryset() name = self.request.get("name") if name: qs

Re: Simple Search Feature

Hi, "Is it safe"? Well that is your call to make. Depending number of songs it might not be meanful for enduser to see whole list which leads to things like pagination and restricting maximum number of returned entries. On Sun, Feb 25, 2018 at 8:10 AM, tango ward wrote:

Re: Simple Search Feature

thanks for the suggestions Ken. I just want to ask too if it's safe to display the list of songs even if the textbox is empty? On Sun, Feb 25, 2018 at 10:21 AM, Ken Whitesell wrote: > One of the issues is here: > if request.method == 'GET': >

Re: Simple Search Feature

One of the issues is here: if request.method == 'GET': song_name = request.GET.get('name', "Error") songs = self.model.objects.filter(name__icontains=song_name) else: songs = self.models.all() return render(request, self.template_name,

Simple Search Feature

Hi, I am playing around on adding a search feature to a website. I am currently encountering a problem when the page should load a list of songs and after typing in a song title in the search box: views.py class SongListView(ListView): model = Song context_object_name = 'songs'