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sort feed by engagement count django

Time:01-13

I would like to sort my feed containing image posts by the engagement (number_of_dislikes number_of_likes), so that the most popular post is on top. But I'm pretty unsure of how to do it. Please have a look at what I have so far and help me out. There are two main problems: one, I have the engagement-post in the html displayed in the same way as the like or dislike, which only reveals the number on click. I tried to change that by just displaying the engagement_count but it only showed the numbers of the posts I´ve clicked on before when the button was still there. How do I display an always counting number of engagement? secondly, i need to sort the feed by that count...

thanks a lot.

index.html (homepage)

{% for post in posts %}

                        <div >

    
                            <!-- post header-->
                            <div >
                                <div >
                                    <a href="#">
                                        <div >  
                                            <img src="{% static 'assets/images/avatars/user.png' %}" >
                                        </div>
                                    </a>
                                    <span ><a href="/profile/{{ post.id }}">@{{ post.id }}  </a></span>
                                </div>
                              <div>
                                <a href="#"> <!-- <i ></i> --></a>
                                <div  <!-- uk-drop="mode: hover;pos: top-right">
                              
        </li>
                                    </ul>
                                
                                </div>
                              </div>
                            </div>

                            {% if post.image %}
    
                            <div uk-lightbox>
                                <a href="{{ post.image.url}}">
                                    <img src="{{post.image.url}}" alt="">
                                </a>
                            </div>
                            {% endif %}
    
                            <div > 
                               
                                <div >
                                    <a href="/like-post?post_id={{ post.id }}" >
                                        <div >
                                            <svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="currentColor" width="25" height="25" >
                                                <path d="M2 10.5a1.5 1.5 0 113 0v6a1.5 1.5 0 01-3 0v-6zM6 10.333v5.43a2 2 0 001.106 1.79l.05.025A4 4 0 008.943 18h5.416a2 2 0 001.962-1.608l1.2-6A2 2 0 0015.56 8H12V4a2 2 0 00-2-2 1 1 0 00-1 1v.667a4 4 0 01-.8 2.4L6.8 7.933a4 4 0 00-.8 2.4z" />
                                            </svg>
                                            {% if post.number_of_likes == 0 %}
                                            <p>no likes</p>
                                            {% else%}
                                            <p>liked by {{ post.number_of_likes }} user</p>
                                            {% endif %}
                                        </div>
                                        
                                    </a>

                                    <a href="/dislike-post?post_id={{ post.id }}" >
                                        <div >
                                            <svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="currentColor" width="25" height="25" >
                                                <path d="M2 10.5a1.5 1.5 0 113 0v6a1.5 1.5 0 01-3 0v-6zM6 10.333v5.43a2 2 0 001.106 1.79l.05.025A4 4 0 008.943 18h5.416a2 2 0 001.962-1.608l1.2-6A2 2 0 0015.56 8H12V4a2 2 0 00-2-2 1 1 0 00-1 1v.667a4 4 0 01-.8 2.4L6.8 7.933a4 4 0 00-.8 2.4z" />
                                            </svg>
                                            {% if post.number_of_dislikes == 0 %}
                                            <p>no dislikes</p>
                                            {% else%}
                                            <p>disliked by {{ post.number_of_dislikes }} user</p>
                                            {% endif %}
                                        </div>
                                    </a>
                                    <a href="/engagement-post?post_id={{ post.id }}" >
                                        <div >
                                            <svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="currentColor" width="25" height="25" >
                                                <path d="M2 10.5a1.5 1.5 0 113 0v6a1.5 1.5 0 01-3 0v-6zM6 10.333v5.43a2 2 0 001.106 1.79l.05.025A4 4 0 008.943 18h5.416a2 2 0 001.962-1.608l1.2-6A2 2 0 0015.56 8H12V4a2 2 0 00-2-2 1 1 0 00-1 1v.667a4 4 0 01-.8 2.4L6.8 7.933a4 4 0 00-.8 2.4z" />
                                            </svg>
                                            {% if post.engagement_count == 0 %}
                                            <p>nothing happened</p>
                                            {% else%}
                                            <p>{{ post.engagement_count}} </p>
                                            {% endif %}
                                        </div>
                                    </a>


              </div>
    
                        </div>
                        {% endfor %}
    

urls.py

urlpatterns = [
    path('', views.index, name='index'),
    path('signup', views.signup, name='signup'),
    path('upload', views.upload, name='upload'),
    path('like-post', views.like_post, name='like-post'),
    path('dislike-post', views.dislike_post, name='dislike-post'),
    path('engagement-post', views.engagement_post, name='engagement-post'),
]

models.py

class Post(models.Model):
    id = models.UUIDField(primary_key=True, default=uuid.uuid4)
    user = models.CharField(max_length=100)
    image = models.ImageField(upload_to='post_images')
    caption = models.TextField(max_length=100)
    created_at = models.DateTimeField(default=datetime.now)
    number_of_likes = models.IntegerField(default=0)
    number_of_dislikes = models.IntegerField(default=0)
    engagement_count = models.IntegerField(null=True)#number_of_dislikes   number_of_likes


    def __str__(self):
        return self.user
class LikePost(models.Model):
    post_id = models.CharField(max_length=500)
    username = models.CharField(max_length=100)

    def __str__(self):
        return self.username
class DislikePost(models.Model):
    post_id = models.CharField(max_length=500)
    username = models.CharField(max_length=100)

    def __str__(self):
        return self.username



class FollowersCount(models.Model):
    follower= models.CharField(max_length=100)
    user =models.CharField(max_length=100)

    def __str__(self):
        return self.user

views.py

def index(request):
    posts= Post.objects.all()

    feed=[]
    engagement_count_list = [posts,
            Post.objects.annotate(count=Count('engagement_count')).order_by('-count')]

    return render(request, 'index.html', {'posts': posts})

def like_post(request):
    username = request.user.username
    post_id = request.GET.get('post_id')
    post = Post.objects.get(id=post_id)
    new_like = LikePost.objects.create(post_id=post_id, username=username)
    new_like.save()
    post.number_of_likes = post.number_of_likes 1
    post.save()
    return redirect('/')


def dislike_post(request):
    username = request.user.username
    post_id = request.GET.get('post_id')

    post = Post.objects.get(id=post_id)

    new_dislike = DislikePost.objects.create(post_id=post_id, username=username)
    new_dislike.save()
    post.number_of_dislikes = post.number_of_dislikes 1
    post.save()
    return redirect('/')

def engagement_post(request):
    post_id = request.GET.get('post_id')

    post = Post.objects.get(id=post_id)

    post.engagement_count = post.number_of_likes   post.number_of_dislikes
    post.save()
    return redirect('/')

CodePudding user response:

I would propose to remodel this, to:

from django.conf import settings


class Post(models.Model):
    id = models.UUIDField(primary_key=True, default=uuid.uuid4)
    user = models.ForeignKey(settings.AUTH_USER_MODEL, on_delete=models.CASCADE)
    image = models.ImageField(upload_to='post_images')
    caption = models.TextField(max_length=100)
    created_at = models.DateTimeField(auto_now_add=True)

    def __str__(self):
        return self.caption


class LikeDislikePost(models.Model):
    post = models.ForeignKey(Post, on_delete=models.CASCADE)
    user = models.ForeignKey(settings.AUTH_USER_MODEL, on_delete=models.CASCADE)
    LIKE_DISLIKES = ((1, 'like'), (-1, 'dislike'))
    like_type = models.IntegerField(choices=LIKE_DISLIKES, default=1)

    def __str__(self):
        return self.username

You thus create a like with like_type = 1 and a dislike with like_dislike = -1. The like method then thus looks like:

from django.contrib.auth.decorators import login_required


@login_required
def like_post(request):
    username = request.user.username
    post_id = request.GET.get('post_id')
    new_like = LikePost.objects.create(post_id=post_id, user=request.user)
    return redirect('/')

Then you sort the Posts with:

from django.db.models import Count

Post.objects.alias(engagement=Count('likedislikepost')).order_by('-engagement')

There is no need to store the number of likes and dislikes in the post. This will only make it harder to keep it in sync properly.


Note: You can limit views to a view to authenticated users with the @login_required decorator [Django-doc].


Note: Section 9 of the HTTP protocol specifies that requests like GET and HEAD should not have side-effects, so you should not change entities with such requests. Normally POST, PUT, PATCH, and DELETE requests are used for this. In that case you make a small <form> that will trigger a POST request, or you use some AJAX calls.


Note: Django's DateTimeField [Django-doc] has a auto_now_add=… parameter [Django-doc] to work with timestamps. This will automatically assign the current datetime when creating the object, and mark it as non-editable (editable=False), such that it does not appear in ModelForms by default.

CodePudding user response:

Out of some other reasons I need the interaction stored in each post. But the solution was in the answer before. I mixed that approach with mine.

def index(request):
posts = Post.objects.all().order_by('interaction_count')
count_posts = Post.objects.count()
return render(request, 'index.html', {'posts': posts, 'count_posts':count_posts})



def like_post(request):
post_id = request.GET.get('post_id')
post = Post.objects.get(id=post_id)
new_like = LikePost.objects.create(post_id=post_id)
new_like.save()
post.number_of_likes = post.number_of_likes 1

new_interaction = InteractionPost.objects.create(post_id=post_id)
new_interaction.save()
post.interaction_count = post.interaction_count   1

post.save()
return redirect('/')


class Post(models.Model):
id = models.UUIDField(primary_key=True, default=uuid.uuid4)
num_post = models.IntegerField(default=0)
image = models.ImageField(upload_to=post_images)
caption = models.TextField(max_length=300)
created_at = models.DateTimeField(auto_now_add=True)
number_of_likes = models.IntegerField(default=0)
number_of_dislikes = models.IntegerField(default=0)
interaction_count = models.IntegerField(default=0)

def __str__(self):
    return self.caption

thank you for your help.

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