how to get all the related objects associated with a User in Django?

Question

I am writing a Django application where a User can save "Search".

class Searches(models.Model):
        user = models.ForeignKey(User)
        ....

       def get_searches(self):
           try:
                search_list=Searches.objects.get(user)
           except:
                 return []
           else:
               return search_list.

Hence when a User is logged in, in my view,

@login_required
def display_search_list(request):
     user=request.user
     search_list=user.get_searches()
     return render(request,"display.html",{'obj_list':search_list})

My question is about get_searches(self) method I defined above. how can I pass the "currently logged-in User" to get the search_list. All I am interested in is user.get_searches() should return all the saved searches for that User. how to get this working?

Thanks

Answer 1

Try:

@login_required
def display_search_list(request):
    user=request.user
    search_list=Searches.objects.filter(user_id=user.id)
    return render(request,"display.html",{'obj_list':search_list})

If you need to have a method inside the Searches class, I think your signature should be:

def get_searches(self, id):

But you would need to create an object to call it. I would just build the list in the view.

It does break MVC a little. :) I believe using the get() method is for getting one row, to get more than one you should use filter()