I apologize in advance if this has already been asked, but I couldn't find any answers that answered the problem I'm having:
I need to do something similar to a For...Else loop in a Django template.
I need to show a button on a template base on an if condition:
- If the user has already bought this product, then show button 1
- If the user has not bought this product, then show button 2
For each product, I have to go through the user's purchases, and then show one button or the other depending on whether they have already bought the product or not.
A simplified (and wrong) version of the code would be like:
{% for product in products %}
//other code here
{% for purchase in purchases %}
{% if purchase.service_id.id == product.id %}
// show button 1
{% else %}
// show button 2
{% endif %}
{% endfor %}
{% endfor %}
However, this code doesn't work, as it shows both buttons as it goes through the for loop.
I can't do a For...Empty because the user may have other purchases (so the for loop wouldn't be empty), but none of them coincide with this product.
Thanks in advance.
EDIT:
Thanks @JashOFHop for the reply! In the end, I found a way around. I'll share it in case anyone else find themselves in this situation:
For clarity, the models concerned in this case are:
class User(AbstractUser):
pass
class Service(models.Model):
user_id = models.ForeignKey("User", on_delete=models.CASCADE, related_name="user_id_services")
name = models.CharField(max_length=64)
status = models.BooleanField(default=True)
description = models.TextField(max_length=300)
category = models.ForeignKey(Category, on_delete=models.CASCADE, related_name="category_name")
price = models.IntegerField()
slots = models.IntegerField(default=1)
amount = models.IntegerField(default=1)
watchedby = models.ManyToManyField(User, blank=True, related_name="watchedby")
class Purchase(models.Model):
user_id = models.ForeignKey(User, on_delete=models.CASCADE, related_name="user_id_purchases")
service_id = models.ForeignKey(Service, on_delete=models.CASCADE, related_name="service_id_purchases")
amountpaid = models.IntegerField()
The view for this template was:
def explore(request):
# get all the active services from the db
services = Service.objects.filter(status=True).order_by('name')
# get the catogories for the filter option
categories = Category.objects.all().order_by('category')
# get the info of the user
userinfo = User.objects.get(username=request.user)
# get the info of the user's purchases
purchases = Purchase.objects.filter(user_id=userinfo)
# render the template
return render(request, "barter/explore.html", {
"services": services,
"categories": categories,
"userinfo": userinfo,
"purchases": purchases
})
And the template, as explained above, rendered all the services and in each is supposed to check whether this user has already bought said service or not.
Solution:
In the view I've added this and passed it also to the template:
# create a list of the IDs of the services purchased by the user to be able to render the buy/bought button correctly
purchases_list = []
for purchase in purchases:
purchases_list.append(purchase.service_id.id)
Then, the template is:
{% for service in services %}
// other code with infomation of the service here
// Important part:
{% if service.id in purchases_list %}
<button>You already bought this service</button>
{% else %}
<button>Buy now</button>
{% endif %}
{% endfor %}