On Sun, Jan 3, 2016 at 6:28 PM, Vijay Khemlani <[email protected]> wrote:
> Try with
>
> self.request.GET['name']
>
Yes, this is is what you want.
Normally, though, I've seen it written as self.request.GET.get('name').
This calls the .get() dict method on the GET attribute of the request,
which will return None in the event that 'name' does not exist. Calling the
member directly above will throw an exception if it doesn't exist, which
will likely be the case on the first page load with no filter, unless you
always call that view with a URL containing name=, hard to do in Django.
Also keep in mind that a key may contain multiple values (although it
probably won't with a simple search field), you can call .getlist(key) or
call .get() multiple times to get all of the values. See the explanation of
the GET QueryDict object here:
https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/request-response/#django.http.HttpRequest.GET
Self.kwargs refers to the keyword arguments to the view itself within
Django, usually consisting of the request and captured URL parameters from
your urls.py, among other things.
Admittedly, that's not explicitly spelled out anywhere in the docs AFAIK.
As an FYI, there are also 3rd party packages that can handle this
functionality for you, such as django-filter.
-James
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