Question

Hay I have a model like this

def Photo(models.Model):
    # Photo object fields...

def PhotoThread(models.Model):
    photo = models.ForeignKey(Photo)
    message = models.TextField(blank=True)
    reply_to = models.ForeignKey('self', related_name='replies', null=True, blank=True)
    votes = models.IntegerField()

As you can see a Thread object has a reply_to field, so that Threads can become children of other Threads.

I can do stuff like –

photo = Photo.objects.get(pk=1)
threads = photo.photothread_set.all()

This will get the threads to a Photo, however, this system allows replies to also have replies.

How would i go about looping through all replies and getting replies for those (all the way down to the maxiumum number of replies we have).

I want to display this as a nested HTML list. Also i want to be able to order all Threads and replies by the ‘votes’ field.

Thanks

Answer 1

Write an inclusion template tag that uses itself in its template.