It's all firing well, thanks for the heads up and the help.
On May 11, 9:26 am, Nuno Maltez <nuno.li...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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