Django Filter Foreignkey Field

Short version: I have a Django app used for recipes, and want to filter data to be sent to a template in my view. I basically want all recepies that are added by a specific user to

Solution 1:

You can try like:

recipes = Recipe.objects.filter(added_by__username = uname)

And request.user works fine for Recipe.objects.filter(added_by = request.user) because request.user is an object. details: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/topics/db/queries/#lookups-that-span-relationships

Solution 2:

When child class defined as

classRecipe(models.Model):
    ...
    ...
    added_by = models.ForeignKey(User)

makemigration generates foreign key as added_by_id. So, you have to use corresponding field name in filter.

Eg: recipes = Recipe.objects.filter(added_by_id = uname)