You can take advantage of the fact that query sets are not executed until
they are inspected:
cards = Card.objects.all()
if request.POST.get('brand') :
cards = cards.filter(brand = request.POST.get('brand'))
if request.POST.get('year') :
cards = cards.filter(year = request.POST.get('year'))
. . .
-- Scott
On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 5:42 AM, caustic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
>
> On Jun 12, 10:55 am, truebosko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I have a card store and I would like to add 3 options a user can
> > search by. Year, Brand, and Card Title
> >
> > Normally this would be easy but my dilemna here is:
> > - All of these are optional, and if they do not search for a certain
> > one, the query should ignore that filter entirely and display in full
> > (So if none of the filters are active I display ALL cards)
> >
> > So basically what I am thinking of was:
> >
> > if request.POST.get('brand'):
> > Q(brand=request.POST.get('brand')
> >
> > if request.POST.get('year'):
> > Q(year=request.POST.get('year')
> >
> > etc.
> >
> > cards = Card.objects.filter(... Now how do I get those Q objects into
> > here ??).order_by('pk')
>
> Try
> cards = Card.objects.filter(Q1&Q2)
>
> Alternatively you can use a dictionary and ** magic:
> filter = dict(brand=request.POST.get('brand'),
> year=request.POST.get('year'))
> cards = Card.objects.filter(**filter)
> >
>
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