Django: invalid literal for int() with base 10

Question

I am new to Django and trying to pass an author\'s name to a view and filter out quote objects based on the author\'s name. here are the codes:

models.py

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Answer 1

I have faced and solved similar issue, focus on attribute : author = models.ForeignKey(Author) django expect that you pass an Instance of Author class to the author field. When you search django want to get a id (a integer number of this Instance): so to get :

aquotelist = Quote.objects.filter(author__exact = name)

you have to start by :

1. create obj_Author = Author.objects.get(author_name = name)

2. aquotelist = Quote.objects.get(author__exact = obj_Author.id)

PS: ( I used get() in my example but if you expect to get multiple record, you can you use filter() and modify something. but main point is that because you work with a "ForeignKey field" so you need to give it a id like obj_Author.id. )