Cannot render a list in template from django view - django

Question

All my views are being rendered properly but when i try to render a list using iteration nothing is displayed on the page, without error.
the view:
from django.shortcuts import render
from haleys_chemist.models import anti_bacterials
from django.http import HttpResponse
from .table import anti_bacterials_Table
from django_tables2 import RequestConfig
from datetime import datetime
from django.http import HttpResponseRedirect
from .forms import notepadform
from django.contrib.auth.decorators import login_required
from django.views.generic import TemplateView,ListView
class retriever(TemplateView):
template_name='index.html'
def expiry_days(self,request):
expired_drugs= anti_bacterials.objects.all()
args={'expired_drugs':expired_drugs}
return render (request, self.template_name,args)
template(index.html):
<h6><i>Drugs about to expire</i></h6>
{%for expired_drug in expired_drugs%}
<ul>
<li>{{expired_drug.Drug_name}}</li>
<li>{{expired_drug.expiry_date}}</li>
</ul>
{%endfor%}
</div>
model:
class anti_bacterials(models.Model):
Drug_id= models.IntegerField(primary_key=True);
Drug_name= models.CharField(max_length=50);
expiry_date= models.DateField();
Price_per_mg= models.DecimalField(decimal_places=2, max_digits=20)
i need to list the expired drugs on the left bar. i know i have queried for all objects on the view but still i should get a list of all the objects names and expiry dates.

Answer 1

You are not using the generic TemplateView properly.
The method expiry_days will never be called because the generic TemplateView doesn't know about it.
Simply you can use the method get_context_data to achieve what you want:
class retriever(TemplateView):
template_name='index.html'
def get_context_data(self, **kwargs):
context = super().get_context_data(**kwargs)
context['expired_drugs']= anti_bacterials.objects.all()
return context
Read more about the generic TemplateView in Django's official documentation and here.