Search controller is fetching the wrong template in Django - django

Question

I'm trying to write the controller to search for articles. But the search does not find anything and a template appears that is not specified in the views.py.
# views.py
class SearchView(ListView):
template_name = 'search_view.html'
def get_queryset(self):
query = self.request.GET.get('q')
object_list = Article.objects.filter(Q(title__icontains=query))
return object_list
# urls.py
urlpatterns = [
path('', ArticlesList.as_view(), name='list_view'),
path('<tag>/', ArticlesByTagsList.as_view(), name='articles_by_tags'),
path('articles/<slug:slug>', ArticleDetail.as_view(), name='detail_view'),
path('articles/create/', ArticleCreate.as_view(), name='create_view'),
path('articles/<slug:slug>/', ArticleUpdate.as_view(), name='update_view'),
path('articles/<slug:slug>/delete/', ArticleDelete.as_view(), name='delete_view'),
path('search/', SearchView.as_view(), name='search_view'),
]
#search_view.html
{% extends 'layout/basic.html' %}
{% block content %}
{{ object_list }}
{% endblock %}
The form looks like this
<form action="{% url 'articles:search_view' %}" method="get">
<input type="text" name="q" placeholder="Search...">
</form>
What am I doing wrong?

Answer 1

You should enumerate over the objects, so:
{% extends 'layout/basic.html' %}
{% block content %}
{% for object in object_list %}
{{ object.title }}
{% endfor %}
{% endblock %}
You should also specify the search/ path before the <tag>/ path, since Django always takes the item that first matches, and if you write search/ then it would first match with the <tag>/ and thus not fire the SearchView.
The urlpatterns thus should look like:
urlpatterns = [
# &downarrow; first specify the search/ path
path('search/', SearchView.as_view(), name='search_view'),
path('<tag>/', ArticlesByTagsList.as_view(), name='articles_by_tags'),
]
an effect of this, is that you can not use search as a tag. If you should be able to visit the articles_by_tags with search as tag, you should define non-overlapping patterns, so:
urlpatterns = [
path('search/', SearchView.as_view(), name='search_view'),
path('tag/<tag>/', ArticlesByTagsList.as_view(), name='articles_by_tags'),
]