I am super new to python programming and django and i got the basics out of the way. I created a project with two apps, home and video. In my video models.py i have the following data:
class Video(models.Model):
name = models.CharField(max_length=200)
description = models.TextField(blank=True, null=True)
I want to do something with this in my home app in the views.py, such as display the data in an html page and currently it is set up as followed:
from video.models import Video
def display_video(request):
video_list = Video.objects.all()
context = {'video_list': video_list}
return render(request, 'home/home.html', context)
in my home.html
{% if video_list %}
{% for video in video_list %}
<p>{{ video.name }}</p>
<p>{{ video.description }}</p>
{% endfor %}
{% else %}
<p>no videos to display</p>
{% endif %}
my home.html always returns "no videos to display"
But when i query Video.objects.all() in my video app it finds 2 objects. any help is appreciated.
I decided to delete the project and started over brand new but this time I used class views instead of function views. I'm not exactly sure why it didn't run but using class views it worked like a charm. So the equivalent in class views as simple as possible is.
from video.models import Video
class IndexView(generic.ListView):
template_name = 'home/index.html'
context_object_name = 'top_three'
def get_queryset(self):
return Video.objects.all()[:3]