Paginating the results of a Django forms POST request

Question

I\'m using Django Forms to do a filtered/faceted search via POST, and I would like to Django\'s paginator class to organize the results. How do I preserve the original requ

Answer 1

My suggestion would be to store the post request using a session or a cookie. In case the post data is sensitive, you should use session to store it. The code below contains my logic to implement it using session.

def index(request):
    is_cookie_set = 0
    # Check if the session has already been created. If created, get their values and store it.
    if 'age' in request.session and 'sex' in request.session: 
        age = request.session['age']
        sex = request.session['sex']
        is_cookie_set = 1
    else:
        # Store the data in the session object which can be used later
        request.session['age'] = age
        request.session['sex'] = sex
    if(request.method == 'POST'):
        if(is_cookie_set == 0): # form submission by the user
            form = EmployeeForm(request.POST)
            sex = form.cleaned_data['sex']
            age = form.cleaned_data['age']
            if form.is_valid():
                result = Employee.objects.all(sex=sex,age_gte=age) # filter all employees based on sex and age
        else: # When the session has been created
            result = Employee.objects.all(sex=sex,age_gte=age)
        paginator = Paginator(result, 20) # Show 20 results per page
        page = request.GET.get('page')
        r = paginator.get_page(page)
        response = render(request, 'app/result.html',{'result':result})    
        return response
    else:
        form = EmployeeForm()
    return render(request,'app/home.html',{'form':form})

You should also check if the post fields are empty or not and change the logic according to it. You can also store the whole post request in the session as suggested by @abidibo.

You can also use cookies for the same. I have explained it here