I did template processor uses the backward following relationship. In the shell it works OK, but in the view I have an error:
'ParentCategory' object has no attribute 'postpages_set'
model (a little simpler than the original)
class ParentCategory(models.Model):
category = models.CharField(max_length = 150)
class PostPages(models.Model):
parent_category = models.ForeignKey('ParentCategory',
blank = True,
null = True,
related_name = "parent_category")
title = models.CharField(max_length = 150)
text = models.TextField()
context processor
from shivablog.shivaapp.models import ParentCategory
def menu_items(request):
output_categories = {}
category_list = ParentCategory.objects.all()
for category in category_list:
output_categories[category] = category.postpages_set.all()
return {'output_categories': output_categories}
in the shell:
>>> output = {}
>>> cat_list = ParentCategory.objects.all()
>>> for cat in cat_list:
... output[cat] = cat.postpages_set.all()
...
>>> output
{<ParentCategory: category#1>: [<PostPages: Post 1>, <PostPages: post 2>], <ParentCategory: category #2>: [], <ParentCategory: category #3>: []}
What is going wrong? What the differece between shell and view in this way?
You have explicitly renamed the related objects manager, using related_name
, so it is now called parent_category
:
cat.parent_category.all()
This is of course a very misleading name - I don't know why you have set related_name
at all.
As for why it doesn't appear in the shell, I can only assume you made the changes in the code without restarting your shell.
Finally, however, I don't know why you want to do this, as you can just as easily access the related objects in the template:
{% for category in output_categories %}{{ category.parent_category.all }}{% endfor %}