Django 3 Web Development Cookbook - Fourth Edition

How to do it...

To add pagination to the list view of the ideas, follow these steps:

1. Import the necessary pagination classes from Django into the views.py file. We will add pagination management to the idea_list view just after filtering. Also, we will slightly modify the context dictionary by assigning page to the object_list key:

# myproject/apps/ideas/views.pyfrom django.shortcuts import render, redirect, get_object_or_404from django.conf import settingsfrom django.core.paginator import (EmptyPage, PageNotAnInteger, Paginator)from .forms import IdeaFilterFormfrom .models import Idea, RATING_CHOICESPAGE_SIZE = getattr(settings, "PAGE_SIZE", 24)def idea_list(request):    qs = Idea.objects.order_by("title") form = IdeaFilterForm(data=request.GET) ...