I am new to Django and trying to pass an author\'s name to a view and filter out quote objects based on the author\'s name. here are the codes:
models.py
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I think you should reset your migrate , you can see this link :
https://stackoverflow.com/a/54768217/9533909
i hope that help you.
aquotelist = Quote.objects.filter(author__author_name__exact = name)
Try changing the corresponding line to the above. The way you have it now, you are matching author
to the given name, but author
is probably considered by its ID here, definitely not by its author_name
. The format is as follows:
Quote.objects.filter([model]__[field]__exact = [whatever])
I faced this issue and I figured out that I made records in the DB table that in your case is (Quote) before making the foreign key relationship with (Author) then after making the foreign key relationship Django doesn't know what to do to handle the old data in Quote model (to which records in Author should old records be assigned to)
--> The simplest solution is to:
delete your old Quote records: Quote.objects.all().delete
inside your shell
recreate and reassign its new records correctly
makemigrations, migrate and runserver ... done
I have faced and solved similar issue,
focus on attribute : author = models.ForeignKey(Author)
django expect that you pass an Instance of Author
class to the author
field. When you search django want to get a id (a integer number of this Instance):
so to get :
aquotelist = Quote.objects.filter(author__exact = name)
you have to start by :
create obj_Author = Author.objects.get(author_name = name)
aquotelist = Quote.objects.get(author__exact = obj_Author.id)
PS: ( I used get()
in my example but if you expect to get multiple record, you can you use filter()
and modify something. but main point is that because you work with a "ForeignKey
field" so you need to give it a id
like obj_Author.id
. )
This will fix your problem permanently ::go to your directory
C:\python 37\Lib\site-packages\django\db\models\fields
and edit the file __init__.py
and edit line 1807; replace
return int(value)
with
return int()
So just delete the argument value then your program will except all field references.
You want to search on the author's author_name
field, not the id.
Quote.objects.filter(author__author_name=name)
With your current search, author__exact
, Django expects name
to be the id of the author, so gives an error because you
is not an integer.