In a Django template, how to specify a dictionary key which is itself an attribute?

Question

I\'m working on a Django project with a ListView that has both a search form, known in the view\'s context as search_form, and a filter form, fil

Answer 1

I finally solved this by writing a custom get filter as described in Django template how to look up a dictionary value with a variable:

from django import template

register = template.Library()


@register.filter
def get(dictionary, key):
    return dictionary.get(key)

I updated _search.html as follows:

{% load get %}


  

    
    search
    close
  
  {% if filter_form %}
    {% for field in filter_form %}
      
    {% endfor %}
  {% endif %}

Now, if I try to search a filtered result, it works as expected:

Note that this also works fine for the filters that are not applied - these have the value None instead of an empty string - without any need to filter them out in the form.