[Django]-Django Hide Posts(objects) in UI per User without affecting main model

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You need to set up some kind of “Proof Of Reading” some where.
One way of doing this, is adding up an M2M between NewsItem and User model.

As soon as a user click on “Mark As Read”, you do something like NewsItem.users.add(request.user), and you can filter your NewsItem in your index view.

class NewsItem(models.Model):
    url = models.CharField(max_length=500, default="",unique=True)
    title = models.CharField(max_length=500, default="")
    hacker_news_url = models.CharField(max_length=500, default="")
    posted_on = models.DateTimeField(default=datetime.now)
    upvote_count = models.IntegerField(default=0)
    comment_count = models.IntegerField(default=0)

    users = models.ManyToManyField('your-user-model', verbose_name="Readers", related_name="reads")

After ‘makemigrations/migrate’, In your views:

@login_required(login_url='/accounts/login')$
def index(request):
    news = NewsItem.objects.exclude(users=request.user).order_by('posted_on')
    context={'news_items':news}
    return render(request, "hello.html", context)

@login_required(login_url='/accounts/login')
@require_http_methods(['POST'])
def read(request, news_item_pk):
    """
    This is the most basic example.
    If you use AJAX Calls, Do not forget to add your CSFR;
    """
    news = get_object_or_404(NewsItem, pk=news_item_pk)
    news.users.add(request.user)
    return HttpResponse()

Finally in your views, you should add your read view

👤Julien Kieffer

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