I am building a search form that provides a drop down list, and then on the
search results, I am redisplaying the search form, but with the search
parameters already pre-selected, so this is what I attempted to do:
<select name="system">
{% for item in object_list %}
<option value="{{ item.id }}" {% if item.id == request.GET.system
%} selected="selected" {% endif %}>
{{ item.name }}
</option>
{% endfor %}
</select>
Unfortunately, this did not work. When I did some testing, I realized that
item.id is giving back an int, while request.GET.system is giving back a
string. If I used the view to change the GET value to an int in the
context, then the comparison works.
What I am wondering is, is this expected behavior? Does the request object
always return a string, and that I am better off writing my own custom tag
to convert request objects into int for comparison? What is the best
practice to employ here? I am fairly new to django and could use some
pointers.
Thanks,
Jack
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