Greetings! My first time using this forum. Using Django 2.0 for a project.
I'm a beginner so I appreciate your patience.
I have a type of blog app, but I don't want the routing/url to be
traditional. I want the user to be able to hit a button that says "Random
Post" which takes them to a random blog post.
I'm not at all sure of the best way to approach this, but I'll share what I
have for context. This blog works because I have class-based views using
ListView and DetailView. I have a template that shows ALL of the blog posts
in chronological order as a ListView, and I have a template that shows each
blog post as a DetailView. It works great but I want this "random"
functionality for my routing.
*Model*: I created a model called Post with all the typical fields,
including a unique autofield. My intention was to randomly select a pk
using this autofield. I thought about using a property to do some of the
querying/logic for my random functionality, but I'm not sure if this is the
best way to do it.
*View: *I have created a custom method-type view, but it doesn't work.
def random_post(request):
>
> posts = Post.objects.all()
>
> shuffle (posts)
>
> random_obj = posts.first()
>
> context = {'random_obj': random_obj,}
>
> return render(request, 'blog/random_post.html', context)
>
>
*URL: *I have a 'path' type urlpattern...
path('posts/random_post/', views.random_post, name='random_post'),
>
*TEMPLATE: *Here is the link to my randomly selected blog post...
<a class="btn btn-primary btn-lg" href="{% url 'random_post' %}"
> role="button">Random Blog Post</a>
The "Detail" template for my blog post has nothing special. The routing
seems to work just fine, but the fields are empty. No data is being sent
from the model to the view.
FYI, this is actually not a blog. I'm using blog logic for the sake of
conversation, but I have a very specialized reason for wanting to choose
random objects and render them in a view.
Thanks in advance!
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