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ahhle
ahhle

Reputation: 3

Model name is being displayed in Django template

I'm new to Django so I'm just building a few simple apps to increase my knowledge. I am trying to display a concatenated list, however when I display the list it shows the model names like so:

[<FamousQuote: Be yourself; everyone else is already taken>][<InfamousQuote: . I dunno. Either way. >]

This is my views.py file:

def index(request):
    famous_quote = FamousQuote.objects.all().order_by('?')[:1]
    infamous_quote = InfamousQuote.objects.all().order_by('?')[:1]

    compiled = [famous_quote, infamous_quote]

    return render(request, 'funnyquotes/index.html', {'compiled': compiled})

and my index.html file:

{% if compiled %}
    {{ compiled|join:"" }}
{% else %}
    <p>No quotes for you.</p>
{% endif %}

Is there something I'm doing wrong, or a better way I could do this?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 34

Answers (1)

Yuji &#39;Tomita&#39; Tomita
Yuji &#39;Tomita&#39; Tomita

Reputation: 118458

You have a list of lists, so the unicode representation of the list contains the <ObjectName:string>, where if you had a list of model objects, you'd get a proper __unicode__ representation of your objects.

Ultimately, the template is automatically trying to convert python objects into its string representations, which in the case of the QuerySet is [<object: instance.__unicode__()>].

You have clearly already defined your desired string representation for object instances - you just need to make sure the template engine receives those instances - not other classes.

Look at the difference in output in a shell.

print(FamousQuote.objects.all().order_by('?')[:1])   # calls str(QuerySet)
# vs
print(FamousQuote.objects.order_by('?')[0]) # calls str(FamousQuote)

Either update your view

compiled = [famous_quote[0], infamous_quote[0]]

Or your template

{% for quotes in compiled %}{{ quotes|join:"" }}{% endfor %}

TL;DR

You have lists of lists so you are joining the string representation of the lists, not the instances.

Upvotes: 1

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