I tried to think of a way to use generic views to show all my blog posts on one page organized chronologically with each post title under one month name and all the month names under one year name.
Like so:
`
2009
October
My last example blog entry
Entry even before the last one
First of October
September
Only one entry in Sept.
2008
December
It is cold in December
First posting of my blog
`
I could not think of a way to do this using generic views, before I wrote a view and some template logic that does.
The template logic is here:
http://www.djangosnippets.org/snippets/1765/
Any suggestions for design patterns are greatly appreciated.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 | def create_archive_list(_query):
"""
given a sorted queryset, return a list in the format:
archive_list = [{'2009': [{'December': ['entry1', 'entry2']},
{'January': ['entry3', 'entry4']}
]
},
{'2008': [{'January': ['entry5', 'entry6']},
]
}
]
"""
archive_list = []
tmp_months_list = []
tmp_year_list = []
for item in _query:
if item.pub_date.year not in tmp_year_list:
tmp_year_list.append(item.pub_date.year)
tmp_dict = {}
tmp_dict[item.pub_date.year] = []
archive_list.append(tmp_dict)
else:
pass
for entry in _query:
for item in archive_list:
_year = entry.pub_date.year
if _year in item:
_tmp_month = entry.pub_date.strftime("%B")
# make a dictionary with the month name as a key and an empty list as a value
tmp_dict = {}
tmp_dict[_tmp_month] = []
if tmp_dict not in item[_year]:
item[_year].append(tmp_dict)
for entry in _query:
# dict in list
for item in archive_list:
# year of entry
_year = entry.pub_date.year
if _year in item:
_year_list = item[_year]
for _dict_month in _year_list:
_tmp_month = entry.pub_date.strftime("%B")
if _tmp_month in _dict_month:
_dict_month[_tmp_month].append(entry)
return archive_list
def very_archive(request):
query = Entry.objects.all().order_by('-pub_date')
object_years_dict = create_archive_list(query)
return render_to_response('ideas/ideas_index.html', {'archive_list': object_years_dict})
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