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Craig Cannon
Craig Cannon

Reputation: 1479

Django reading model data in a template

I'm new to django and am having trouble reading data from a model in a template.

Here's the model.

class Team(models.Model):
team_name = models.CharField(max_length=30, default="Team")
created = models.DateTimeField(auto_now_add=True)

def __unicode__(self):
    return self.team_name

The view.

def create_team(request):
team = Team.objects.all()
return render_to_response("ideas/profile.html", {'team':team})

And the template.

<h2>Available groups: {{team.team_name}} </h2>

Likelihood this is an obvious fix: 99%. Thanks anyway guys!

Upvotes: 2

Views: 946

Answers (1)

Chris Pratt
Chris Pratt

Reputation: 239440

team is not an object, it's a queryset -- simplistically, a list of objects. Even if there's only one object in the table, it's simply a list of one. As a result, you can't just reference model attributes on it as if it were an instance of the model -- you have to pull the instance out first:

{% for t in team %}
    {{ t.team_name }}
{% endfor %}

A couple of notes. As the loop shows, naming it team doesn't make sense. That implies one thing, and now we're going to loop through a single entity? Best practice here is to name single items singular and querysets, lists, etc. plural. Then we would do for team in teams which makes a lot more sense.

Secondly, don't use the model name in the attribute name. team.team_name is redundant, when team.name would work just as well. If there's another "name" attribute, then prefix that one, but the model itself should have priority on top-level attribute names.

Upvotes: 2

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