displaying user posts inside there profile in django

Question

I am fairly new to django, i have two models in my app MyProfile and MyPost, users have a profile and they can create a post, it's all work but i want to show posts created by perticular user inside their own profile i tried adding a user_posts object in MyProfile with a filter author but nothing happened.

MyView

@method_decorator(login_required, name="dispatch") class MyProfileDetailView(DetailView): model = MyProfile def broto(request): user = request.user user_posts = MyPost.objects.filter(author=request.user).order_by('-cr_date') return render(request, {'user_posts':user_posts,'user': user})

Profile page html

{% extends 'base.html' %} {% block content %} <div class="p-5"> <img src="/media/{{myprofile.pic}}" /> <h1 class="myhead2">{{myprofile.name}}</h1> <p><strong>Address: {{myprofile.address}}</strong></p> <p><strong>Phone Number: {{myprofile.phone_no}}</strong></p> <p><strong>Email: {{myprofile.user.email}}</strong></p> <p><strong>About:</strong> {{myprofile.purpose}}</p> <p><strong> Total Donation Recived: {{myprofile.donation_recived}}</strong></p> <hr> <table class="table my-3"> <thead class="thead-dark"> <tr> <th>Title</th> <th>Date</th> <th>Action</th> </tr> </thead> {% for MyPost in user_posts %} <tr> <td>{{MyPost.title}}</td> <td>{{MyPost.cr_date | date:"d/m/y"}}</td> <td> <a class="btn btn-dark btn-sm" href='/covid/mypost/{{n1.id}}'>Read More</a> </td> </tr> {% endfor %} </table> </div> {% endblock %}

I am not particularly knowledgeable about class based views, but I have no idea what you are trying to achieve by calling this method broto. Should you not be overriding the get method? — Robin Zigmond
– Robin Zigmond, Commented Apr 25, 2020 at 9:19
For a DetailView, it's even better to override get_context_data instead of get. See my answer — Michał
– Michał, Commented Apr 25, 2020 at 9:28

Michał · Accepted Answer · 2020-04-25 10:33:31Z

As mentioned in comments, your broto methods is probably never executed, that's why nothing happens.

If you use a DetailView, the best way to extend a context is to override get_context_data method. In your case it could be:

@method_decorator(login_required, name="dispatch") class MyProfileDetailView(DetailView): model = MyProfile def get_context_data(self, **kwargs): # Call the base implementation first to get a context context = super().get_context_data(**kwargs) # Add in a QuerySet of all the user posts user_posts = MyPost.objects.filter(author=self.request.user).order_by('-cr_date') context['user_posts'] = user_posts context['user'] = self.request.user return context

You can read about it here: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/3.0/topics/class-based-views/generic-display/#adding-extra-context

hhey @Michal S. thanks for your answer now it makes complete sense. I applied your answer but it's giving me an error name 'request' is not defined.
My mistake, it should be self.request.user. I will edit my answer
S. now it's giving an instance error Cannot query "ahmy": Must be "MyProfile" instance..

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