I've got a Django SessionWizardView in which I want to add extra data for the user to take advantage of during the steps. Essentially I want to build a list, and a dict which stores information about the steps once they are complete.
The first step in the wizard allows a user to add information about themselves and at the end allows the option to add another person's details. If this option is selected another, conditional, form is rendered & I'd like to provide them with the option to use the data entered previously.
So during the process_step() method I'm creating a list, and then a corresponding dictionary of data for each step in the process. Initially I had these as class attributes, but feel they would be better suited in a user's session so I've attempted to add them like so;
def process_step(self, form):
form_data = self.get_form_step_data(form)
current_step = self.storage.current_step or ''
data_dict = self.request.session.get('data_dict', dict())
data_list = self.request.session.get('data_list', list())
if current_step in data_dict:
# Always replace the existing data for a step.
data_dict.pop(current_step)
if not isinstance(form, TermsForm):
entrant_data = dict()
for k, v in form_data.iteritems():
entrant_data[k] = v
for k in entrant_data.iterkeys():
new_key = re.sub('{}-'.format(current_step), u'', k)
entrant_data[new_key] = entrant_data.pop(k)
data_dict[current_step] = entrant_data
done = False
for i, data in enumerate(data_list):
if data[0] == current_step:
data_list[i] = (
current_step, u'{} {}'.format(
entrant_data['first_name'],
entrant_data['last_name']
)
)
done = True
if not done:
data_list.append(
(
current_step, u'{} {}'.format(
entrant_data['first_name'],
entrant_data['last_name']
)
)
)
self.request.session['data_dict'] = data_dict
self.request.session['data_list'] = data_list
self.request.session.modified = True
return form_data
After this method is ran my new session keys aren't part of the session. From what I've been reading, this is a valid way of setting session data, but have I made a mistake somewhere?
Of the top of my head, your process_step function call misses the explicit request parm. It's mostly called like this:
process_step(self, request, form, step):
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I have a list of IDs which corresponds to a set of records (opportunities) in a database. I then pass this list as a parameter in a RESTful API request where I am filtering the results (tickets) by ID. For each match, the query returns JSON data pertaining to the individual record. However, I want to handle when the query does not find a match. I would like to assign some value for this case such as the string "None", because not every opportunity has a ticket. How can I make sure there exists some value in presales_tickets for every ID in opportunity_list? Could I provide a default value in the request for this case?
views.py
opportunities = cwObj.get_opportunities()
temp = []
opportunity_list = []
cw_presales_engineers = []
for opportunity in opportunities:
temp.append(str(opportunity['id']))
opportunity_list = ','.join(temp)
presales_tickets = cwObj.get_tickets_by_opportunity(opportunity_list)
for opportunity in opportunities:
try:
if opportunity['id'] == presales_tickets[0]['opportunity']['id']:
try:
for presales_ticket in presales_tickets:
cw_engineer = presales_ticket['owner']['name']
cw_presales_engineers.append(cw_engineer)
except:
pass
else:
cw_engineer = 'None'
cw_presales_engineers.append(cw_engineer)
except AttributeError:
cw_engineer = ''
cw_presales_engineers.append(cw_engineer)
So, lets say you have a Ticket model and Opportunity model. Connected via a foreign key.
class Opportunity(models.Model):
... some fields here ...
class Ticket(models.Model):
opportunity = models.ForeignKey(Opportunity)
and in your view, you get a list of opportunity ids
def some_view(request):
ids = request.GET['ids']
It sounds, like what you want is to fetch all the tickets for the supplied opportunities and add some default processing for the opportunities that do not have tickets. If that is the case, why not do something like
def some_view(request):
ids = request.GET['ids']
tickets = Ticket.objects.filter(opportunity__id__in=ids)
results = []
for ticket in tickets:
result = ... do your thing here ...
results.append(result)
# now handle missing opportunities
good_ids = tickets.values_list('opportunity__id', flat=True).distinct()
for id in ids:
if id not in good_ids:
result = ... do your default processing ...
results.append(result)
Is that what you are trying to do?
I would like to change the way the relationships are displayed in the Flask-Admin Index view of a Model. I do have two models connected through a many-to-many relationship which get displayed in the admin index view as well. Unfortunately, the relationships are just separated using a comma, which thus the user might lose the overview quickly. Ideally, I would like to convert the relationships entries into a simple list (e.g. like with li in HTML).
Is there an easy way of achieving this?
Thanks a lot!
Instead of the comma, you can use a <br> tag as the separator.
see column_type_formatters.
Define default formatter and update a list type.
def lineby_list_formatter(view, values):
html = u'<br/> '.join(str(v) for v in values)
return Markup(html)
MY_DEFAULT_FORMATTERS = dict(typefmt.BASE_FORMATTERS)
MY_DEFAULT_FORMATTERS.update({
list: lineby_list_formatter
})
class EventView(ModelView):
...
column_type_formatters = MY_DEFAULT_FORMATTERS
Ok... I figured it out myself: You can manipulate the way the data is rendered with overwriting the function _get_list_value(). see code below
def _get_list_value(self, context, model, name, column_formatters,
column_type_formatters):
"""
Returns the value to be displayed.
:param context:
:py:class:`jinja2.runtime.Context` if available
:param model:
Model instance
:param name:
Field name
:param column_formatters:
column_formatters to be used.
:param column_type_formatters:
column_type_formatters to be used.
"""
column_fmt = column_formatters.get(name)
if column_fmt is not None:
value = column_fmt(self, context, model, name)
else:
value = self._get_field_value(model, name)
choices_map = self._column_choices_map.get(name, {})
if choices_map:
return choices_map.get(value) or value
type_fmt = None
for typeobj, formatter in column_type_formatters.items():
if isinstance(value, typeobj):
type_fmt = formatter
break
if type_fmt is not None:
value = type_fmt(self, value)
### overwritten here
if name == 'items':
html_string = '<ul>'
for item in value.split(','):
html_string += '<li> {} </li>'.format(item)
html_string += '</ul>'
value = Markup(html_string)
return value
I have one django project. It has one function in view.py to process the data from the inputs to give the output for other function. However the processing time for the function is kind of long. I want to fulfill the instant demonstration of the processed output. How could I achieved that? The following processing() function is for the processing purpose. And the output 'user_entries' is for the demonstration in results() as followed.
def processing(request):
import sys
n = []
for topic in Topic.objects.filter(owner=request.user).order_by("date_added"):
entries = topic.entries.all()
m = []
for p in entries:
q = p.text
m.append(q)
n.append(m)
list = []
start(list, n)
request.session['user_entries'] = list
return request.session['user_entries']
def results(request):
data = processing(request)
return render(request, "project/results.html", {"datas": data})
In the start() function of the processing() function. There is one part list.append() to add new output into list. But it seems that the new appended list cannot be transferred and show the instant results in project/results.html?
What you're doing could likely be done a lot more simply.
def results(request):
return render(
request,
"project/results.html",
{
"user_entries": Entry.objects.filter(topic__owner=request.user),
"start_values": "...", # Whatever start is appending...
},
)
Since you have a foreign key from entry to User, you could also use request.user.topic_set.all() to get the current user's topics.
Or, if you actually do need those lists nested...
# ...
"user_entries": (
topic.entries.all() for topic in
Topic.objects.filter(owner=request.user)
),
# ...
Just based on what you're showing us, it seems like your ordering -- for both Topic and Entry -- should probably have a sensible default set in, e.g., Topic.Meta.ordering, which in this case would probably look like this:
class Topic(models.Model):
# ...
class Meta:
ordering = ("date_added",)
# ...
That way, in this and most other cases, you would not have to apply .ordering(...) manually.
Im working on a small project of retrieving information about books from the Google Books API using Python 3. For this i make a call to the API, read out the variables and store those in a list. For a search like "linkedin" this works perfectly. However when i enter "Google", it reads the second title from the JSON input. How can this happen?
Please find my code below (Google_Results is the class I use to initialize the variables):
import requests
def Book_Search(search_term):
parms = {"q": search_term, "maxResults": 3}
r = requests.get(url="https://www.googleapis.com/books/v1/volumes", params=parms)
print(r.url)
results = r.json()
i = 0
for result in results["items"]:
try:
isbn13 = str(result["volumeInfo"]["industryIdentifiers"][0]["identifier"])
isbn10 = str(result["volumeInfo"]["industryIdentifiers"][1]["identifier"])
title = str(result["volumeInfo"]["title"])
author = str(result["volumeInfo"]["authors"])[2:-2]
publisher = str(result["volumeInfo"]["publisher"])
published_date = str(result["volumeInfo"]["publishedDate"])
description = str(result["volumeInfo"]["description"])
pages = str(result["volumeInfo"]["pageCount"])
genre = str(result["volumeInfo"]["categories"])[2:-2]
language = str(result["volumeInfo"]["language"])
image_link = str(result["volumeInfo"]["imageLinks"]["thumbnail"])
dict = Google_Results(isbn13, isbn10, title, author, publisher, published_date, description, pages, genre,
language, image_link)
gr.append(dict)
print(gr[i].title)
i += 1
except:
pass
return
gr = []
Book_Search("Linkedin")
I am a beginner to Python, so any help would be appreciated!
It does so because there is no publisher entry in volumeInfo of the first entry, thus it raises a KeyError and your except captures it. If you're going to work with fuzzy data you have to account for the fact that it will not always have the expected structure. For simple cases you can rely on dict.get() and its default argument to return a 'valid' default entry if an entry is missing.
Also, there are a few conceptual problems with your function - it relies on a global gr which is bad design, it shadows the built-in dict type and it captures all exceptions guaranteeing that you cannot exit your code even with a SIGINT... I'd suggest you to convert it to something a bit more sane:
def book_search(search_term, max_results=3):
results = [] # a list to store the results
parms = {"q": search_term, "maxResults": max_results}
r = requests.get(url="https://www.googleapis.com/books/v1/volumes", params=parms)
try: # just in case the server doesn't return valid JSON
for result in r.json().get("items", []):
if "volumeInfo" not in result: # invalid entry - missing volumeInfo
continue
result_dict = {} # a dictionary to store our discovered fields
result = result["volumeInfo"] # all the data we're interested is in volumeInfo
isbns = result.get("industryIdentifiers", None) # capture ISBNs
if isinstance(isbns, list) and isbns:
for i, t in enumerate(("isbn10", "isbn13")):
if len(isbns) > i and isinstance(isbns[i], dict):
result_dict[t] = isbns[i].get("identifier", None)
result_dict["title"] = result.get("title", None)
authors = result.get("authors", None) # capture authors
if isinstance(authors, list) and len(authors) > 2: # you're slicing from 2
result_dict["author"] = str(authors[2:-2])
result_dict["publisher"] = result.get("publisher", None)
result_dict["published_date"] = result.get("publishedDate", None)
result_dict["description"] = result.get("description", None)
result_dict["pages"] = result.get("pageCount", None)
genres = result.get("authors", None) # capture genres
if isinstance(genres, list) and len(genres) > 2: # since you're slicing from 2
result_dict["genre"] = str(genres[2:-2])
result_dict["language"] = result.get("language", None)
result_dict["image_link"] = result.get("imageLinks", {}).get("thumbnail", None)
# make sure Google_Results accepts keyword arguments like title, author...
# and make them optional as they might not be in the returned result
gr = Google_Results(**result_dict)
results.append(gr) # add it to the results list
except ValueError:
return None # invalid response returned, you may raise an error instead
return results # return the results
Then you can easily retrieve as much info as possible for a term:
gr = book_search("Google")
And it will be far more tolerant of data omissions, provided that your Google_Results type makes most of the entries optional.
Following #Coldspeed's recommendation it became clear that missing information in the JSON file caused the exception to run. Since I only had a "pass" statement there it skipped the entire result. Therefore I will have to adapt the "Try and Except" statements so errors do get handled properly.
Thanks for the help guys!
Is it possible to do something similar to this with a list, dictionary or something else?
data_dict = {
'title' : 'awesome title',
'body' : 'great body of text',
}
Model.objects.create(data_dict)
Even better if I can extend it:
Model.objects.create(data_dict, extra='hello', extra2='world')
If title and body are fields in your model, then you can deliver the keyword arguments in your dictionary using the ** operator.
Assuming your model is called MyModel:
# create instance of model
m = MyModel(**data_dict)
# don't forget to save to database!
m.save()
As for your second question, the dictionary has to be the final argument. Again, extra and extra2 should be fields in the model.
m2 =MyModel(extra='hello', extra2='world', **data_dict)
m2.save()
For any model DummyModel you can use DummyModel.objects.create(**data_dict). Does not require save after the create.
Not directly an answer to the question, but I find this code helped me create the dicts that save nicely into the correct answer. The type conversions made are required if this data will be exported to json.
I hope this helps:
#mod is a django database model instance
def toDict( mod ):
import datetime
from decimal import Decimal
import re
#Go through the object, load in the objects we want
obj = {}
for key in mod.__dict__:
if re.search('^_', key):
continue
#Copy my data
if isinstance( mod.__dict__[key], datetime.datetime ):
obj[key] = int(calendar.timegm( ts.utctimetuple(mod.__dict__[key])))
elif isinstance( mod.__dict__[key], Decimal ):
obj[key] = float( mod.__dict__[key] )
else:
obj[key] = mod.__dict__[key]
return obj
def toCsv( mod, fields, delim=',' ):
import datetime
from decimal import Decimal
#Dump the items
raw = []
for key in fields:
if key not in mod.__dict__:
continue
#Copy my data
if isinstance( mod.__dict__[key], datetime.datetime ):
raw.append( str(calendar.timegm( ts.utctimetuple(mod.__dict__[key]))) )
elif isinstance( mod.__dict__[key], Decimal ):
raw.append( str(float( mod.__dict__[key] )))
else:
raw.append( str(mod.__dict__[key]) )
return delim.join( raw )