Great, Just make sure you don't end up with multiple "page" arguments
on your query string when navigating through the results (click next;
click next again...).
Nuno
On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 2:41 PM, Nick <nickt...@gmail.com> wrote:
> The POST thing was the result of late night meltdowns and desperation.
> I tend to just try stupid things when i'm working through an issue
> like this, just seeing what the application is capable of doing. I've
> switched it all back to GET.
>
> I found the answer around 1 this morning. You are exactly right, I
> needed to capture the query string and place it in the "next" and
> "previous" page links. Here's how I went about doing that, just in
> case someone else runs into this issue:
>
> query_string = request.GET.copy()
>
> and then in the dict:
>
> 'query_string': query_string.urlencode()
>
>
>
>
>
> On May 11, 4:46 am, Nuno Maltez <nuno.li...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> You need to pass the current search paramters in your query string
>> (?party=D&q=<txt>&page=<num> ) when you create the links to all the
>> pages, and you need to be able to retrieve them from request.GET in
>> order to recreate the object list (reps) when rendering a specific
>> page (any particular reason why are you using POST in the search
>> form?).
>>
>> hth,
>> Nuno
>>
>>
>>
>> On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 1:58 AM, Nick <nickt...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> > I'm trying to paginate results from a search with multiple options.
>> > The only problem is, once I hit the next button it clears the query
>> > and I'm left paginating all the objects in the DB.
>>
>> > Here is my view:
>>
>> > def filter_search(request):
>> > if request.POST:
>> > reps = Rep.objects.all()
>> > else:
>> > reps = []
>> > query = request.POST
>> > if 'q' in request.POST:
>> > q = request.POST.get('q', '')
>> > qset = (
>> > Q(Last_Name__icontains=q) | Q(First_Name__icontains=1)
>> > )
>> > reps = reps.filter(qset)
>> > else:
>> > q = []
>> > if len(q):
>> > qlist = q
>> > else:
>> > qlist = []
>> > if 'party' in request.POST:
>> > party = request.POST.getlist('party')
>> > reps = reps.filter(Party__in=party)
>> > else:
>> > party = []
>> > if len(party):
>> > plist = party
>> > else:
>> > plist = []
>> > paginator = Paginator(reps, 15)
>> > results = paginator.count
>> > try:
>> > page = int(request.POST.get('page', '1'))
>> > except:
>> > page = 1
>> > try:
>> > repList = paginator.page(page)
>> > except (EmptyPage, InvalidPage):
>> > repList = paginator.page(paginator.num_pages)
>> > finalq = request.POST
>> > return render_to_response("Government/search.html", {
>> > 'reps': repList,
>> > 'query': query,
>> > 'plist': plist,
>> > 'qlist': qlist,
>> > 'results': results,
>> > 'finalq': finalq
>> > })
>>
>> > Here is my tpl:
>>
>> > <form action="" method="POST"><br />
>> > <input type="text" name="q"><br />
>> > Democrat <input type="checkbox" name="party" value="D">
>> > Republican <input type="checkbox" name="party" value="R">
>> > <input type="submit" value="Search">
>> > </form>
>>
>> > {% if query %}
>> > <h3>Your search for {% if qlist %} <span>{{ qlist}}</span> {% endif %}
>> > {% if plist %} {% for p in plist %} {% if forloop.first %} <span>Party
>> > ({{ p }})</span> {% else %} & <span> Party ({{p}})</span> {% endif %}
>> > {% endfor %}{% endif %} returned <span>{{ reps.paginator.count }}</
>> > span> result(s)</h3>
>> > <ul>
>> > {% for object in reps.object_list %}
>> > <li>{{ object.Position }} {{ object.First_Name }}
>> > {{ object.Last_Name }} <a href="http://django.newsok.com/government/
>> > reps/{{ object.Last_Name }}_{{ object.First_Name}}">view more</a></li>
>> > {% endfor %}
>> > </ul>
>>
>> > <div id="pagination">
>> > {% if reps.has_previous %}
>> > <a class="activePrev"
>> > href="&page={{ reps.previous_page_number }}">Previous</a>
>> > {% else %}
>> > <a class="nullPrev">Previous</a>
>> > {% endif %}
>>
>> > {% if reps.has_next %}
>> > <a class="activeNext" href="&page={{ reps.next_page_number }}">Next</
>> > a>
>> > {% else %}
>> > <a class="nullNext" href="">Next</a>
>> > {% endif %}
>> > </div>
>>
>> > That href is the cause of the problem, how do I pass a page to the url
>> > without resetting the query?
>>
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