creaing a search form - lhmisho/django-eCommerce GitHub Wiki

from django.shortcuts import render
from django.views.generic import ListView
from products.models import Product
# Create your views here.

class SearchProductView(ListView):
    # first way to manage list view
    #queryset = Product.objects.all()
    template_name = 'search/view.html'

    # passing request.GET.q as a query to the template
    def get_context_data(self, *args, **kwargs):
        request = self.request
        context = super(SearchProductView, self).get_context_data(*args, **kwargs)
        query   = request.GET.get('q')
        context['query'] = query
        return context


    def get_queryset(self, *args, **kwargs):
        request = self.request
        query = request.GET.get('q',None)
        print(query)
        if query is not None:
            return Product.objects.filter(title__icontains=query)
        return Product.objects.featured()

{% extends 'base.html' %}
{% block head %}
{% endblock head %}
<!-- we can also make query smarter without using get_context_data on views.py by useing with ... as .. -->
{% block content %}
    <div class="row my-3">
        {% if query %}
          <div class="col-12">
            Result for <b>{{ query }}</b>
          </div>
        {% else %}
          <div class="col-12 col-md-6 mx-auto">
            {% include 'search/snippets/search-form.html' %}
          </div>
        {%endif%}
    </div><hr>

    <div class="row">
        <!-- {{ object_list }} -->
        {% for obj in object_list  %}
            <div class="col shadow-lg p-3 mb-5 bg-white rounded" style="margin:10px;">
                <!-- get_absolute_url is created at products.models get_absolute_url() -->
                {%include 'products/snippets/card.html' with instance=obj%}
            </div>
        {% endfor %}
    </div>

<!-- {'paginator': None, 'page_obj': None, 'is_paginated': False, 'object_list': <QuerySet [<Product: car>]>, 'product_list': <QuerySet [<Product: car>]>, 'view': <products.views.ProductListView object at 0x7f686df2edd8>}
{{ paginator }}
{{ is_paginated }}
{{ object_list }}     -->
</div>
{% endblock %}

from django.urls import path,re_path
from .views import (SearchProductView)

app_name = 'search'

urlpatterns = [

    path('', SearchProductView.as_view(),name='query'),

]