On May 17, 9:13 am, "M.Ganesh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I am back with another query
>
> I have this (generic) view function
>
> --------------------------8><------------------------------------
> def object_list(request, object, filter_string = None):
> if filter_string:
> object_list = object.objects.filter(filter_string)
> else:
> object_list = object.objects.all()
>
> return render_to_response(object.__name__ + '_list.html',
> {object.__name__ + '_list': object_list},
> RequestContext(request))
> --------------------------8><------------------------------------
>
> Now this function works when I don't pass on the filter_string, and I
> get the entire object list. But when I pass on a value for filter_string
> (say 'entity=2') I get this error :
>
> 'unicode' object has no attribute 'get_sql'
>
> How do I pass strings to filter_string and get a filtered object list?
You cannot. You should pass either an instance of django.db.models.Q
or a set of keyword arguments.
This means you should change code in the object_list caller to do
something like this:
object_list(request, model.Object, Q(entity=2))
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