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Python Django ORM Total Control Mind your Ps and Qs

Posted by vinay kumar
vinay kumar
72 Points

How search is working?

I have not seen the search function in any of the previous videos , and what does " term = request.GET.get('q') " do.

1 Answer

S L
S L
31,336 Points
S L
S L
31,336 Points

Quite a late answer, but maybe this will help someone:

When there is a form with method="GET all input fields will be added to URL of the submit request. So <input type="search" name="q"> means "q=Android" will be added to the next URL.

When handling the request request.GET returns a dictionary of all the URL parameters of GET request: so /courses/search/?q=Android will return {'q':['Android']}`

and .get('q') gets the value for the 'q'.