accessing serialised values in request.session - django

Question

hopefully this is a rather simple question.
If i have the following stored in request.session. Assuming i have multiple items (only one shown here), I'd like to be able to loop over these items and render them as part of a template.
How can i access the quantity key and value for use within a for loop?
Here's what I'm trying, however there's no output.
{% for item in request.session.bookingContents.items %}
{{ item.quantity }}
{% endfor %}
Variable:
'bookingContents'
Value:
{u'cartID': 51,
u'items':
{u'1':
{
u'quantity': 25},
}
}
}
Further information (updated as this question evolves):
Active template context processors are:
'django.core.context_processors.request',
'django.contrib.auth.context_processors.auth',
#allauth specific template processors below
'allauth.account.context_processors.account',
'allauth.socialaccount.context_processors.socialaccount',
'django.contrib.messages.context_processors.messages',

Answer 1

You need to add django.core.context_processors.request to your template context processors.
Add this to your settings.py
from django.conf.global_settings import TEMPLATE_CONTEXT_PROCESSORS as TCP
TEMPLATE_CONTEXT_PROCESSORS = TCP + (
'django.core.context_processors.request',
)
Then you can access the session from your templates like this and your code should work:
{{ request.session.foo}}
UPDATE:
Ok your settings and view is fine, then you could try:
{% for key, value in request.session.bookingContents.items.items %}
{{ value.quantity }}
{% endfor %}