No Post matches the given query - django

Question

I am using Django version 2.
I am working on a blog web app using PostgreSQL database.
I am trying to add a search feature to the web app but when I open the url (http://localhost:8000/search/) to make a search, I get the error below.
Page not found (404)
Request Method: GET
Request URL: http://localhost:8000/search/
Raised by: blog.views.post_detail
No Post matches the given query.
here is the blog/urls.py
from django.contrib.postgres.search import SearchVector
from .forms import CommentForm, SearchForm
from .models import Post, Comment
from django.shortcuts import render, get_object_or_404
from django.urls import path
from . import views
urlpatterns = [
path('', views.PostListView.as_view(), name='home'),
path('<slug:post>/', views.post_detail, name='post_detail'),
path('<int:post_id>/share', views.post_share, name='share'),
path('search/', views.post_search, name='post_search'),
]
here is the views.py
def post_detail(request, post):
post = get_object_or_404(Post, slug=post)
comments = post.comments.filter(active=True)
new_comment = None
if request.method == 'POST':
comment_form = CommentForm(data=request.POST)
if comment_form.is_valid():
new_comment = comment_form.save(commit=False)
new_comment.post = post
new_comment.save()
else:
comment_form = CommentForm()
return render(request, 'detail.html', {'post': post,
'comments': comments, 'new_comment':
new_comment,'comment_form': comment_form})
def post_search(request):
form = SearchForm()
query = None
results = []
if 'query' in request.GET:
form = SearchForm(request.GET)
if form.is_valid():
query = form.cleaned_data['query']
results = Post.objects.annotate(
search=SearchVector('title','body'),
).filter(search=query)
return render(request, 'search.html',
{'form':form,'query':query,'results':results})
Here are the templates files.
For search.html -(page to make query)
{% extends 'base.html' %}
{% block title %}Search{% endblock title %}
{% block page_title %}Search Posts{% endblock page_title %}
{% block content %}
{% if query %}
<h1>Posts containing "{{ query }}"</h1>
<h3>
{% with results.count as total_results %}
Found {{ total_results }} result{{ total_results|pluralize }}
{% endwith %}
</h3>
{% for post in results %}
<h4>{{ post.title }}</h4>
{{ post.body|truncatewords:5 }}
{% empty %}
<p>There is no results for your query.</p>
{% endfor %}
<p>Search again</p>
{% else %}
<h1>Search for posts</h1>
<form action="." method="GET">
{{ form.as_p }}
<input type="submit" value="Search">
</form>
{% endif %}
{% endblock content %}
For the html for post_detail
{% extends 'base.html' %}
{% load blog_tags %}
{% load crispy_forms_tags %}
{% load profanity %}
{% block title %}{{post.title}}{% endblock title %}
{% block navlink %}
<nav>
<ul>
<li class="current">Home</li>
<li>About</li>
<li >Services</li>
</ul>
</nav>
{% endblock navlink %}
{% block page_title %}{{post.title}}{% endblock page_title %}
{% block content %}
{{post.body|markdown}}
<p>Share this post via email</p>
{% with comments.count as total_comments %}
<h2>{{ total_comments }} comment{{ total_comments|pluralize }} </h2>
{% endwith %}
<div class="container">
{% for comment in comments %}
<div class="comment">
<p>Comment {{ forloop.counter }} by <em>{{ comment.name }}</em> - {{comment.created}} </p>
{{ comment.body|censor|linebreaks }}
</div>
{% empty %}
<p>There are no comments yet.</p>
{% endfor %}
{% if new_comment %}
<h2>Your comment has been added</h2>
{% else %}
<h2>Add a new comment</h2>
<form method="post">{% csrf_token %}
{{comment_form|crispy}}
<input class="button_1" type="submit" value="Add comment">
</form>
{% endif %}
</div>
{% endblock content %}

Answer 1

This is probably for one of the strange reason search is here actually matches with slug:post. One of easiest solution for your problem is to re-order urls and make sure /search place before. Like following
urlpatterns = [
path('', views.PostListView.as_view(), name='home'),
path('search/', views.post_search, name='post_search'),
path('<slug:post>/', views.post_detail, name='post_detail'),
path('<int:post_id>/share', views.post_share, name='share')
]
My suggestion for further developement whenever its need to add slug in url we need to make sure there is some prefix before it.