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Reputation: 1162

How do you use MultipleChoiceField with a get request?

I am trying to have a form submitted with multiple values for one field that allows querying with an or statement. I have the MultipleChoiceField working that submits a get request as follows:

<QueryDict: {u'Selection': [u'option1', u'option2']}>

When I try and read an individual result from the request with

post = request.GET.get('Selection')

only 'option2' is returned and not the other selected item(s).

How can I turn the MultipleChoiceField into a query that selects 'option1' or 'option2'? Is there a better method of turning a form submission into an 'or' query? Thanks.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 178

Answers (1)

Peter DeGlopper
Peter DeGlopper

Reputation: 37364

GET is a QueryDict object, which has special behavior when multiple values are submitted in the HTTP GET for the same key. To get all of them, use the getlist method. Alternatively, just use a form - the form field will collect the multiple values for you.

Upvotes: 1

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