Malcolm,
Thanks. Will give it a shot.
On Feb 22, 7:05 pm, Malcolm Tredinnick <malc...@pointy-stick.com>
wrote:
> On Sun, 2009-02-22 at 15:18 -0800, nixon66 wrote:
> > not sure I'm understanding how get_absolute_url to work.
>
> > in my model I created this
>
> > class State(models.Model):
> > name = models.CharField(max_length=80)
> > slug = models.CharField(max_length=80)
>
> > def __unicode__(self):
> > return self.name
>
> > def get_absolute_url(self):
> > return "/state/%s/" % self.slug
>
> > and my template looks like this:
>
> > {%block content %}
>
> > <ul>
>
> > {% for state in state_list %}
>
> > <li><a href ="{{state.get_absolute_url }}">{{ state.name }}</a></li>
>
> > {% endfor %}
>
> > </ul>
>
> > {% endblock %}
>
> That all looks fine. It should work.
>
>
>
> > seems like this would work. But I get an empty page with nothing
> > unless I drop the "state.name" and just go with state.
>
> That suggests state.name is the empty string, possibly.
>
> > Then I get an
> > empty string for the url. I'm not understanding the docs on how to do
> > this. Can anyone point me to a good example of how this should work.
>
> Hmm ... are you sure "state" is really a State object? Because if it
> was, say, a string, then state.get_absolute_url would return an empty
> string to the template (as the get_absolute_url attribute or method
> doesn't exist).
>
> You can test out what should be happening by opening up an interactive
> prompt (python manage.py shell) and testing it out manually. Something
> like this:
>
> >>> st = State.objects.get(pk=1)
> ...
> >>> st.name
> u"fred"
> >>> st.get_absolute_url()
> "/slug/foo/"
>
> You could also simplify your template or view and make it work with just
> a single state object first (instead of the list). Make sure that when
> you pass in a hard-coded State instance, it displays something. Then
> move onto dynamically working out which State instances to display.
>
> Regards,
> Malcolm
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