Question

I am using django-postman to provide user-to-user message facility and this uses django ajax-selects to provide autocomplete facility for usernames when sending a message. I need to declare a channel for Django user and pass it to the postman application. Here how it has to be done. I declare a channel as shown below and

AJAX_LOOKUP_CHANNELS = {
    #   pass a dict with the model and the field to search against
    'user'  : {'model':'django.contrib.auth.User', 'search_field':'username'},
}

here I pass it to the postman app

POSTMAN_AUTOCOMPLETER_APP = {
        'name': 'ajax_select', 
        'field': 'AutoCompleteField',
        'arg_name': 'channel', 
        'arg_default': 'user', # no default, mandatory to enable the feature
    }

But when I do this I get a template syntax error as Caught ValueError while rendering: too many values to unpack

Can anybody help me know whats really happening here.

Answer 1

AJAX_LOOKUP_CHANNELS = {
    'user'  : {'model': 'auth.user', 'search_field': 'username'},
}

changing 'django.contrib.auth.User' to 'auth.user'