Django Conflict between 2 pagination - django

Question

I'm trying to display all the data assoicated to every person and every house on an single template each with pagination.
The problem is everytime I view the entries of a particular data using pagination example person. The other pagination called house get reseted.
For example if I am on page 3 for house and I try to view other entries for page person . The house pagination will get reset back to 1. How do I fix this pagination conflict?
models
class Person(models.Model):
user = models.ForeignKey(User)
name = models.CharField(max_length=100, blank=True)
def __unicode__(self):
return self.name
class House(models.Model):
user = models.ForeignKey(User)
name = models.CharField(max_length=100)
views
def Display(request):
user= User.objects.get(username=request.user)
comment = Person.objects.get(user=user)
posts = House.objects.filter(user=user)
paginator = Paginator(comment, 5)
try: n = int(request.GET.get("n", '1'))
except ValueError: page = 1
try:
comment = paginator.page(n)
except (InvalidPage, EmptyPage):
comment = paginator.page(paginator.num_pages)
paginator = Paginator(posts, 5)
try: page = int(request.GET.get("page", '1'))
except ValueError: page = 1
try:
posts = paginator.page(page)
except (InvalidPage, EmptyPage):
posts = paginator.page(paginator.num_pages)
return render(request,'display.html',{'posts':posts,'comment':comment})
HTML
{% for p in posts.object_list %}
{{p.name}}
{% endfor %}
{% if posts.object_list and posts.paginator.num_pages > 1 %}
<div class="pagination" style="margin-top: 20px; margin-left: -20px; ">
Page {{ posts.number }} of {{ posts.paginator.num_pages }}<br>
{% if posts.has_previous %}
<a class="Link" href= "{% if formula %}?text={{formula}}&{% else %}?{% endif %}page={{ posts.previous_page_number }}">newer entries << </a>
{% endif %}
{% if posts.has_next %}
<a class="Link" href="{% if formula %}?text={{formula}}&{% else %}?{% endif %}page={{ posts.next_page_number }}"> >> older entries</a>
{% endif %}
</span>
</div>
{% endif %}
{% for c in comment.object_list %}
{{c.name}}
{% endfor %}
{% if comment.object_list and comment.paginator.num_pages > 1 %}
Page {{ comment.number }} of {{ comment.paginator.num_pages }}
{% if comment.has_previous %}
<a class="Link" href= "?n={{ comment.previous_page_number }}">newer entries << </a>
{% endif %}<br>
{% if comment.has_next %}
<a class="Link" href="?n={{ comment.next_page_number }}"> >> older entries</a>
{% endif %}
</span>
</div>
{% endif %

Answer 1

First off, your variable names versus how you describe everything is quite confusing.
The issue is you are using two different variables for the page: n for person (or comment) and page for house (or posts). In each of your <a href=""> you need to set both n and page not just one. So:
<a class="Link" href= "{% if formula %}?text={{formula}}&{% else %}?{% endif %}page={{ posts.previous_page_number }}&n={{ comment.number }}">newer entries << </a>
<a class="Link" href="{% if formula %}?text={{formula}}&{% else %}?{% endif %}page={{ posts.next_page_number }}&n={{ comment.number }}"> >> older entries</a>
<a class="Link" href= "?n={{ comment.previous_page_number }}&page={{ posts.number }}">newer entries << </a>
<a class="Link" href="?n={{ comment.next_page_number }}&page={{ posts.number }}"> >> older entries</a>

Answer 2

In the same view you change the value of paginator two times
paginator = Paginator(comment, 5)
# here you have code that does stuff and some lines below
paginator = Paginator(posts, 5)
if you want two paginators in the same view you should also name them differently (and add them to your context variables)
Something I can suggest is to have an ajax pagination view that you're going to call to switch between pages in your templates. In this way, you can change page to each resultset separately without needing to reload the entire view (and probably loosing your pagination state)