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Max Loyd
Max Loyd

Reputation: 418

Django name 'request' is not defined while filtering based on users

In Django I am trying to filter some posts based on a user. I have looked it up and found that the way to do it (or the way that was suggested), is to use request.user, but when I do this I get an error saying name 'request' is not defined

View:

class MyPost(ListView):
    model = Post
    template_name = "public/list.html"
    paginate_by = 3

    def get_context_data(self, **kwargs):
        context = super(MyPost, self).get_context_data(**kwargs)
        context['post'] = Post.objects.filter(live=True, user=request.user)
        return context

I am unsure if this is the way to do it or not, but I couldn't find anywhere that had good documentation on this. If anyone can help that would be great.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 485

Answers (1)

ruddra
ruddra

Reputation: 51998

Try like this:

def get_context_data(self, **kwargs):
    context = super(MyPost, self).get_context_data(**kwargs)
    context['post'] = Post.objects.filter(live=True, user=self.request.user)  # used self for object reference
    return context

I would also recommend to subclass your ListView from LoginRequiredMixin to ensure the view is only accessible for logged in user. You can do it like this:

from django.contrib.auth.mixins import LoginRequiredMixin

class MyPost(LoginRequiredMixin, ListView):
   # rest of the code

Upvotes: 4

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