Hello everybody,
some days ago, my co-worker did some things which keep bothering me.
He has a simple model, which represents, as it's name point out,
err ... houses :
class House(models.Model):
price = models.FloatField(max_digits=10, decimal_places=2)
to_buy = models.BooleanField(default=True) # False = to rent
nb_rooms = models.PositiveIntegerField(null=True)
## etc.
Then, he has a simple view, which displays a list of all houses from
the database, with a formatted title.
The title is a mix of some fields of a house object : for ex., if the
number of rooms is not available, it is not displayed, etc.
(currently, it's a 30 lines function).
He ends up with a title which looks like this : "House for rent, with
4 rooms - 1000" or "House to buy - 100000"
So, the question is : what is the "best" way of rendering this title
in a template.
We found multiple solutions (looping over each "house"s of the list) :
* a get_title() method in the House class which is used like that :
{{ house.get_title }}
* a format_title filter : {{ house|format_title }}
* adding an additionnal "title" attribute for every house objects,
which is set in the view by a function (how ugly)
* ... something else ?
To my mind, I think using a filter is better, since it allows you to
redefine another format of title, without changing anything into your
model (since the application should be reusable for other projects).
However, I'm not sure if this is the "best" way to do this ...
Any comments welcome !
- Jonathan
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