The example in the documentation, https://django-filter.readthedocs.org/en/latest/usage.html, is I think for a function based view. I am currently researching how to do this with a class based view.
def product_list(request):
f = ProductFilter(request.GET, queryset=Product.objects.all())
return render_to_response('my_app/template.html', {'filter': f})
A bit more digging and I have managed to answer it. I have used the code from here https://github.com/rasca/django-enhanced-cbv.
I added the contents of list.py
into my main app as main_app/filter_mixin.py
Then in the app I was adding a search to the list view I added the file filter.py
like this (identical to documentation)
from django_filters import FilterSet
from .models import Contact
class ContactFilter(FilterSet):
class Meta:
model = Contact
fields = ['name_first', 'name_last']
Now the view.py
becomes:
from vanilla import ListView
from .filter import ContactFilter
from galleria.filter_mixin import ListFilteredMixin
class ContactList(ListFilteredMixin, ListView):
filter_set = ContactFilter