Job Search

Part of the Class-Based Views section of Coddy's Django journey. Lesson 18 of 18.

The last feature is a search box on the jobs page. A visitor types developer, presses Search, and sees only the jobs with that word in the title.

A search form uses GET, so the word lands in the URL as ?q=developer, where a link or a bookmark keeps it. The view reads it the way it reads ?city=, in get_queryset(). People type in any case, so match with a lookup that ignores it.

In a template the current request is request, so {{ request.GET.q }} is the searched word: put it in the box's value.

Filters chain: narrow by city when there is one, then by the word when there is one. The pagination links already use {% querystring %}, so a search survives the page change.

Challenge

Medium

Add a job search box.

In jobs/views.py, in JobListView.get_queryset(), read q from request.GET the same way as city. When it is set, keep only jobs whose title contains it, ignoring case.
In job_list.html, under the <h1>, add a GET form: a box named q whose value is request.GET.q, and a Search button.

Search for developer: you see 4 jobs and the box keeps the word.

Try it yourself

from django.contrib.auth.mixins import LoginRequiredMixin, UserPassesTestMixin
from django.urls import reverse_lazy
from django.views.generic import CreateView, DeleteView, DetailView, ListView, TemplateView, UpdateView

from .models import Job


class HomeView(TemplateView):
    template_name = "jobs/home.html"

    def get_context_data(self, **kwargs):
        context = super().get_context_data(**kwargs)
        context["count"] = Job.objects.count()
        context["latest"] = Job.objects.order_by("-posted").first()
        return context


class AboutView(TemplateView):
    template_name = "jobs/about.html"


class JobListView(ListView):
    model = Job
    context_object_name = "jobs"
    ordering = ["-posted"]
    paginate_by = 5

    def get_queryset(self):
        jobs = super().get_queryset()
        city = self.request.GET.get("city")
        if city:
            jobs = jobs.filter(city=city)
        return jobs


class JobDetailView(DetailView):
    model = Job


class JobCreateView(LoginRequiredMixin, CreateView):
    model = Job
    fields = ["title", "company", "city", "salary", "description"]

    def form_valid(self, form):
        form.instance.posted_by = self.request.user
        return super().form_valid(form)


class JobUpdateView(LoginRequiredMixin, UserPassesTestMixin, UpdateView):
    model = Job
    fields = ["title", "company", "city", "salary", "description"]

    def test_func(self):
        return self.get_object().posted_by == self.request.user


class JobDeleteView(LoginRequiredMixin, UserPassesTestMixin, DeleteView):
    model = Job
    success_url = reverse_lazy("jobs:list")

    def test_func(self):
        return self.get_object().posted_by == self.request.user


class MyJobsView(LoginRequiredMixin, ListView):
    template_name = "jobs/my_jobs.html"
    context_object_name = "jobs"

    def get_queryset(self):
        return Job.objects.filter(posted_by=self.request.user).order_by("-posted")