Quiz Model

In the last video we turned our existing step model into an abstract model and 0:00 then created a text model that inherited from step. 0:05 Thanks to djangos migrations we didn't even lose any of our data 0:08 just moved it to another table. 0:11 We need a new kind of step though we have text steps but 0:13 we want to be able to make sure people are learning what we're teaching so 0:17 we should provide some sort of testing mechanism. 0:20 Let's make quizzes. 0:22 So we want to make another type of step, I want to make a quiz step. 0:24 So we're gonna come down here, and we're gonna add a new 0:29 class named Quiz, which will be a step. 0:34 And let's get the content into the quiz. 0:39 And quizzes won't have content like a text step will. 0:44 I think the only thing we want to know for quizzes, 0:48 we want to know that a quiz has enough questions. 0:50 So let's have a total_questions field. 0:53 And we'll do that. 0:58 And you know what, let's give it a default of we'll say 4. 0:59 It has to have at least four questions. 1:02 Not terrible all right so now let's go ahead and migrate that oops I have 1:05 to spell default correctly all right let's go ahead and make the migrations for that. 1:11 Python manage.py make migrations courses. 1:18 And that's gonna create the quiz model python manage.py 1:24 migrate courses that's going to apply the migration so 1:29 cool now we have those and let's stick it into the admin. 1:34 So we'll import quiz and let's just register it, 1:39 like I said before, this inline is not going to 1:44 make less and less sense as we go along. 1:49 So, we probably want to strip that out and just use these registered things, or 1:54 build what we're gonna build in a little bit, but, let's go back over here and 1:57 let's go look at course. 2:01 Oops, sorry, I've got to run my server. 2:02 There's the server. 2:07 All right, refresh. 2:08 And now we have Q-U-I-Z-S. 2:12 That is not at all how you pluralized the word quizzes. 2:15 Jango doesn't know how to pluralize the word quizzes. 2:19 Jango just adds an S to the end of everything. 2:21 So let's tell it how to do that. 2:24 class Meta: verbose_name_plural would be Quizzes. 2:26 Save that. 2:34 Refresh this. 2:36 And now quizzes is spelled correctly. 2:37 That's a handy little trick to know. 2:39 Depends on how much you use the admin. 2:41 But being able to quickly go, 2:43 that's not what that's actually called is really useful. 2:45 This is also a thing that you can apply internationalization for. 2:48 You can apply translations, too. 2:51 So if you need to have it in the French version and the German version and 2:53 the English version or whatever, you can totally do that too. 2:56 All right, so now the other thing we need to do to make our new models all happy and 2:59 copacetic Is we need to be able to view those on the front of the site. 3:06 So like if we go to courses and 1, 3:11 we got Python Basics, none of our stuff is showing up now. 3:16 Make sure we have it all in there, cuz we should, right? 3:22 Yeah, okay. 3:27 So let's go look at our views real quick. 3:29 There's our course detail, and that sends our course through. 3:37 And we go look at our Templates > Courses 3:41 > step_detail, that's what we want, 3:45 oh not step_detail sorry, course_detail. 3:49 And step_set see there's a problem. 3:56 We don't have a step_set anymore. 3:59 We need to get all of our stuff. 4:02 So let's come here, and let's add in 4:05 our view, we're gonna have to do a little Pythony things here. 4:11 I'll do my best to walk through all of this, but 4:17 I will also put notes in the teacher's notes. 4:18 So we're gonna import a function called chain. 4:22 And let's just do from.importmodels which 4:26 means we'll have to do some updates here models. 4:31 Models dot but that's gonna change. 4:44 Right? 4:47 So we're gonna ignore this view for right now. 4:48 But let's just look here at this course detail. 4:50 So what we wanna do is we wanna get all the steps, quizzes and 4:52 text that relate to a course. 4:57 And we want to combine all those so that they're sorted by their order attribute. 5:00 So we're gonna call this steps and it's gonna be sorted, 5:05 which sorted is a Python function for sorting things. 5:09 And what we're going to sort is the chain, or the combination of all these iterables. 5:13 And we're gonna do course.text_set.all and 5:18 course.quiz_set.all. 5:23 So what chain does is it goes through and it takes the first thing, 5:26 it takes all the things from text set and it takes all the things from quiz set and 5:29 it puts them all into one big iterable together. 5:33 And then sorted goes through and 5:36 sorts all those by whatever we tell it to sort it by, which is gonna be this. 5:37 Key, which is a lambda, or an unnamed function for a step, and we're gonna sort 5:42 it by, you know what, let's call it step, and we're gonna say step.order. 5:47 So whatever that order is on each thing. 5:53 All right and then we're gonna send out course, but let's also send out steps. 5:57 We'll call that steps. 6:06 All right, I know that's a lot of Python, we will handle all of that really soon. 6:08 And let's go a step further here and we're gonna say text_detail. 6:13 We'll leave that the same, but we'll call this text, cuz that's what it is. 6:20 And then let's do def quiz_detail. 6:28 I copied all that right, yeah, there we go. 6:31 Quiz_detail, and we're gonna get models.Quiz. 6:37 And I'm gonna do some updates on this HTML in between here and 6:43 the next video, but we'll talk about the rest of that in just a second. 6:45 So we have those two. 6:51 Let's go to urls.py, and let's take our step_detail here. 6:52 And what we wanna do is we wanna do a t, and 6:59 this is gonna go to text detail, name will be text, sure. 7:04 Then we'll do a q, and quiz detail, and this will be called quiz. 7:11 And the reason we're doing this is because I want to be able to show you, 7:17 Oh we have to update that template. 7:24 Not this one, but this one. 7:26 And we'll say for step in steps. 7:29 And this will have to be, We can't. 7:36 See we can't fill this out. 7:43 So let's fix that. 7:45 Let's go over here to our models.py. 7:46 And what we need to do, is we need to bring in our reverse function. 7:49 So, from Jango.core.URLresolvers. 7:57 Import reverse, and then for text and 8:04 quiz we both need to specify a new method named get absolute_url. 8:09 And what this does is we return a url, or a url string rather. 8:15 So, we're gonna return reverse ('courses:text' 8:23 cuz that's the name of our url. 8:28 And we're gonna specify the kwargs. 8:32 So the kwargs are course_pk, which is equal to self.course. 8:34 And you can do course.pk, or you could do self.course.id, which requires 8:40 one less lookup as far as the database goes, so kind of handy to do that. 8:45 And then step_pk, which'll be self.id or self.pk. 8:49 We'll do self.id. 8:55 And let's just copy this. 8:59 Cuz there's no reason to type it again if I don't have to. 9:00 Paste it in. 9:07 Gonna add another blank line. 9:08 And instead of courses:text it'll be courses:quiz. 9:11 So there's our two URL's, and in course detail right here instead of spelling out 9:16 all of that, step.get_absolute_url. 9:24 And if we come over here and refresh our page, there's our steps. 9:29 That was a lot of work, I know. 9:34 We added the quiz model, we did this chaining and sorted thing. 9:36 Which I'll walk through that in the teacher's notes. 9:41 And then we also had to add the reverse URL kind of thing. 9:43 The get URL thing. 9:47 These are all steps that you're going to do a lot when you're dealing with models, 9:49 especially abstract or multi-table inheritance models in Jango. 9:53 That verbose name plural is really handy for 9:58 making things read a little nicer in the admin. 10:00 We're not going to spend much time in the admin in this course though. 10:03 Okay, let's go make two more models, one for questions and one for answers. 10:06