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Django 4 By Example

You're reading from   Django 4 By Example Build powerful and reliable Python web applications from scratch

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Product type Paperback
Published in Aug 2022
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781801813051
Length 766 pages
Edition 4th Edition
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Antonio Melé Antonio Melé
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Preface 1. Building a Blog Application FREE CHAPTER 2. Enhancing Your Blog with Advanced Features 3. Extending Your Blog Application 4. Building a Social Website 5. Implementing Social Authentication 6. Sharing Content on Your Website 7. Tracking User Actions 8. Building an Online Shop 9. Managing Payments and Orders 10. Extending Your Shop 11. Adding Internationalization to Your Shop 12. Building an E-Learning Platform 13. Creating a Content Management System 14. Rendering and Caching Content 15. Building an API 16. Building a Chat Server 17. Going Live 18. Other Books You May Enjoy
19. Index

Accessing the course contents

You need a view for displaying the courses that students are enrolled on, and a view for accessing the actual course contents. Edit the views.py file of the students application and add the following code to it:

from django.views.generic.list import ListView
from courses.models import Course
class StudentCourseListView(LoginRequiredMixin, ListView):
    model = Course
    template_name = 'students/course/list.html'
    def get_queryset(self):
        qs = super().get_queryset()
        return qs.filter(students__in=[self.request.user])

This is the view to see courses that students are enrolled on. It inherits from LoginRequiredMixin to make sure that only logged-in users can access the view. It also inherits from the generic ListView for displaying a list of Course objects. You override the get_queryset() method to retrieve only the courses that a student is enrolled on; you filter the QuerySet by the student’s ManyToManyField...

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