Re: Benefit of 'return Foo.objects.all()' in a ListView

Grand, thank you for clarifying!

On Saturday, February 25, 2017 at 9:32:32 AM UTC, Melvyn Sopacua wrote:

Hi Richard,

On Friday 24 February 2017 15:51:15 Richard Jackson wrote:

> What is the advantage of including the get_queryset(self) function in
> a ListView? When I've run it with a very basic model ('Foo') there
> doesn't appear to be any difference with/without it - this could well
> be that my examples are currently too basic.

There is none. The benefit of the get_queryset() method is that you can
return something other than Foo.objects.all(). For example:

class MyBlogPosts(generic.ListView):
        def get_queryset(self, request):
                return self.model.objects.filter(user=self.request.user)
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Melvyn Sopacua

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