Django: Search form in Class Based ListView

Question

I am trying to realize a Class Based ListView which displays a selection of a table set. If the site is requested the first time, the dataset should be displaye

Answer 1

I think that the error you are getting is because your form doesn't require the name field. So, although the form is valid, the cleaned_data for your name field is empty.

These could be the problematic lines:

if form.is_valid():
    self.show_results = True
    self.profiles = Profile.objects.filter(name__icontains=form.cleaned_data['name'])

If I were you, I would try changing the line:

self.profiles = Profile.objects.filter(name__icontains=form.cleaned_data['name'])

to this:

self.profiles = Profile.objects.none()

If you stop receiving errors (and your template receives an empty object_list), the problem you have is what I said before: name field not required.

Let us know if this doesn't work!