Check if text exists in Django template context variable - django

Question

This may not be the best way of doing this (open to suggestions). But I want to display a button on my home page depending on the value of a Boolean in the custom user model.
I am passing the value of this boolean via context in the view. But I can't seem to get the template logic to work.
Models.py
from django.contrib.auth.models import AbstractUser
class CustomUser(AbstractUser):
isAdmin = models.BooleanField(default = False,)
#more models...
views.py
from django.views.generic import TemplateView
from django.contrib.auth import get_user_model
from accounts.models import CustomUser
class HomePageView(TemplateView):
template_name = 'home.html'
def get_context_data(self, **kwargs):
context = super(HomePageView, self).get_context_data(**kwargs)
if self.request.user.is_authenticated:
adminStatus = CustomUser.objects.get(id=self.request.user.id)
print(adminStatus.isAdmin)
context['adminStatus'] = str(adminStatus.isAdmin)
return context
home page template.html
{% extends 'base.html' %}
{% block body %}
{% if user.is_authenticated %}
<h4>Hi {{ user.username }}!</h4>
<a class="btn btn-primary btn-lg" href="{% url 'dashboard' %}" role="button"> Go to Dashboard</a>
{% else %}
<p>You are not logged in</p>
login
</div>
{% if adminStatus == "True" %}
<h1>test</h1>
<div class = "adminPanel">
<a class="btn btn-primary btn-lg" href="{% url 'newEquipment' %}" role="button"> add new equipment</a>
</div>
{% endif %}
{% endif %}
{% endblock %}
I can't see the "newEquipment" button even though the adminStatus context is equal to "True", as verified by the print() command.
I have a feeling my template logic is not correct. I also tried:
{% if adminStatus contains "True" %}

Answer 1

In the view, context['adminStatus'] is defined only when the user is logged in. Meanwhile in the template, you are checking for adminStatus when the user is not logged in.
First the return context statement needs to be un-indented once, so that context (with or without adminStatus) is available regardless:
def get_context_data(self, **kwargs):
context = super(HomePageView, self).get_context_data(**kwargs)
if self.request.user.is_authenticated:
adminStatus = CustomUser.objects.get(id=self.request.user.id)
context['adminStatus'] = adminStatus.isAdmin
return context
Next, yes you probably need to fix your template logic. Assuming you want to check for adminStatus only if the user is logged in, it should look like:
{% if user.is_authenticated %}
<h4>Hi {{ user.username }}!</h4>
...
{% if adminStatus %}
<h1>test</h1>
...
{% endif %}
{% else %}
<p>You are not logged in</p>
...
{% endif %}
Original answer:
In the view, you likely don't have to stringify adminStatus.isAdmin.
context['adminStatus'] = adminStatus.isAdmin
If passed to the context as a boolean, you should be able to use this expression in the template:
{% if adminStatus %}