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user17633089

Reputation:

Django populating dropdown with values

Hello guys i want to populate a dropdown with the ids from the database, but when iterating over the list i get back also the brackets and the commas and some spaces.

In views.py, i have the following:

id = list(Device.objects.values_list('patientId', flat=True).distinct())
print(id)
for item in id:
    print(item)

context = {"filename": filename,
           "collapse": "",
           "patientId": json.dumps(id),
           "labels": json.dumps(labels, default=str),
           "data": json.dumps(data),
           }

The print is returning exactly what i want the ids(1,2,3), but when going in the frontend(index.html), with the following code:

{{patientId}}
                <div class="row">
                    <label for="patientId">Choose a patient:</label>
                    <select name="patient" id="patient">
                        {% for item in patientId%}
                        <option value="{{item}}">
                                {{item}}
                        </option>
                        {%endfor%}
                    </select>

What i get

How can i get in the frontend the dropdown with the correct values?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 587

Answers (1)

alexzander
alexzander

Reputation: 1875

your problem is that you dont pass a list to the django template, instead you are passing a str (string representation of list -> json)

context = {"filename": filename,
           "collapse": "",
           "patientId": json.dumps(id), # < -----------------------
           "labels": json.dumps(labels, default=str),
           "data": json.dumps(data),
           }

that line should be

   "patientId": id # this should be a better and more specific name

because you need to pass a list to the template in order to iterate over it like this

{% for item in patientId%}

and btw, you templates should look like this

{% for item in patientId %} # notice the space
{% endfor %} # notice the spaces

Upvotes: 1

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