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Python Django Class-based Views Customizing Class-based Views Override get_queryset

Simon Amz
Simon Amz
4,606 Points
Posted by Simon Amz
Simon Amz
4,606 Points

How to return zero records?

In the exercise, I have to return zero records if the term to look for is blank, but the bummer message is not clear enough I don't know where the error comes from.

Thanks for the clues.

articles/views.py 
from django.views import generic

from . import models


class ArticleList(generic.ListView):
    model = models.Article


class ArticleDetail(generic.DetailView):
    model = models.Article


class ArticleCreate(generic.CreateView):
    fields = ('title', 'body', 'author', 'published')
    model = models.Article


class ArticleUpdate(generic.UpdateView):
    fields = ('title', 'body', 'author', 'published')
    model = models.Article


class ArticleDelete(generic.DeleteView):
    model = models.Article


class ArticleSearch(generic.ListView):
    model = models.Article

    def get_queryset(self):
        if self.kwargs["term"]:
            return self.model.objects.filter(model.body__icontains=self.kwargs["term"])
        else:
            return

1 Answer

Quentin Vadon
Quentin Vadon
2,263 Points
Quentin Vadon
Quentin Vadon
2,263 Points

Hi,

To return an empty queryset you can do MyModel.objects.none() ;-)