Question

I’m having the hardest time with what should be super simple. I can’t grab the passed parameters in django.

In the browser I type:

http://localhost:8000/mysite/getst/?term=hello

My url pattern is:

(r’^mysite/getst/$’, ‘tube.views.getsearchterms’)

My View is

def getsearchterms(request):

my_term = some_way_to_get_term

return HttpResponse(my_term)

In this case it should return “hello”. I am calling the view, but a blank value is returned to me. I’ve tried various forms of GET….

What should some_way_to_get_term be?

Answer 1

The get parameters can be accesses like any dictionary:

my_term = request.GET['term']
my_term = request.GET.get('term', 'my default term')