django-views

I want to see if a field/variable is none within a Django template. What is the correct syntax for that? This is what I currently have: {% if profile.user.first_name is null %} <p> -- </p> {% elif %} {{ profile.user.first_name }} {{ profile.user.last_name }} {% endif%} In the example above, what would I use to replace "null"? Gerard None, False and True all are available within template tags and filters. None, False , the empty string ( '', "", """""" ) and empty lists/tuples all evaluate to False when evaluated by if , so you can easily do {% if profile.user.first_name == None %} {% if not

I'm making an election information app, and I want to allow the currently logged-in user to be able to declare himself and only himself as a candidate in an election. I'm using Django's built-in ModelForm and CreateView. My problem is that the Run for Office form (in other words, the 'create candidate' form) allows the user to select any user in the database to make a candidate. I want the user field in the Run for Office to be automatically set to the currently logged-in user, and for this value to be hidden, so the logged-in user cannot change the value of the field to someone else. views.py

I'm trying to create a dialog which uses jquery's .load() function to slurp in a rendered django form. The .load function is passed the pk of the "alert" object. Also available in the class functions are things like self.request.user so I can pre-fill those fields, shown below in the Message model (models.py): class Message(models.Model): user = models.ForeignKey(User) alert = models.ForeignKey(Alert) date = models.DateTimeField() message = models.TextField() Subclassing django's CreateView makes it pretty easy to generate a context with an instance of the ModelForm (views.py): class

How would I perform the following using raw SQL in views.py ? from app.models import Picture def results(request): all = Picture.objects.all() yes = Picture.objects.filter(vote='yes').count() return render_to_response('results.html', {'picture':picture, 'all':all, 'yes': yes}, context_instance=RequestContext(request)) What would this results function look like? >>> from django.db import connection >>> cursor = connection.cursor() >>> cursor.execute('''SELECT count(*) FROM people_person''') 1L >>> row = cursor.fetchone() >>> print row (12L,) >>> Person.objects.all().count() 12 use WHERE clause

How to create form from JSON Schema? I am writing code in JavaScript and jquery. With this template part like Form I am creating this with haml and adding this in js file. For backend I am using python. I am using Django framework. So I got some links for create form from JSON Schema. Reference link : http://neyric.github.io/inputex/examples/json-schema.html In my Form : Input elemets : textboxes, textarea, select list, submit and cancel buttons are present. So I want to ask is creating form with JSON schema is feasible or not? If yes then, can you provide some good links? jsonform - Build

I am passing the request to the template page.In django template how to pass the last page from which the new page was initialised.Instead of history.go(-1) i need to use this {{request.http referer}} ?? <input type="button" value="Back" /> //onlcick how to call the referrer That piece of information is in the META attribute of the HttpRequest , and it's the HTTP_REFERER (sic) key, so I believe you should be able to access it in the template as: {{ request.META.HTTP_REFERER }} Works in the shell: >>> from django.template import * >>> t = Template("{{ request.META.HTTP_REFERER }}") >>> from

I have three models — articles, authors and tweets. I'm ultimately needing to use Django REST Framework to construct a feed that aggregates all the objects using the Article and Tweet models into one reverse chronological feed. Any idea how I'd do that? I get the feeling I need to create a new serializer, but I'm really not sure. Thanks! Edit: Here's what I've done thus far. app/serializers.py: class TimelineSerializer(serializers.Serializer): pk = serializers.Field() title = serializers.CharField() author = serializers.RelatedField() pub_date = serializers.DateTimeField() app/views.py: class