Element disappears when I add an {% include %} tag inside my for loop

Question

Here's my template code for my comment queryset:

{% block comments %}
{% load el_pagination_tags %}
    {% paginate 10 comment_list %}
        {% for i in comment_list %}
            <div class='comment_div'>
                <div class="left_comment_div">
                    <p>{{ i.comment_text }}</p>
                </div>
            </div>
            {% include 'comment/comments.html' with comment_list=i.replies.all %}
        </div>
        {% endfor %}
    {% show_more %}  
{% endblock %}

I'm using django el pagination to implement ajax pagination. On the 3rd line you can see I initially load 10 comments. With this package, comes a {% show_more %} element I can add which, when clicked, will load the rest of the comments.

However, this {% show_more %}element disapears for some reason when I add {% include 'comment/comments.html' with comment_list=i.replies.all %}. For context, this include tag shows the replies for the current comment in the for loop.

Does anyone have any idea why this include tag affects the {% show_more %} element?

EDIT: Below is the relevent code for displaying show_more Github Source

el_pagination_tags.py

# show the template only if there is a next page
if page.has_next():
    print('Has next') #doesn't print
    request = context['request']
    page_number = page.next_page_number()
    # Generate the querystring.
    querystring_key = data['querystring_key']
    querystring = utils.get_querystring_for_page(
        request, page_number, querystring_key,
        default_number=data['default_number'])
    return {
        'label': label,
        'loading': loading,
        'class_name': class_name,
        'path': iri_to_uri(data['override_path'] or request.path),
        'querystring': querystring,
        'querystring_key': querystring_key,
        'request': request,
    }
# No next page, nothing to see.
print('No next') #prints for every comment (e.g. 20 times when 20 comments)
return {}

Can I change something in the above code to possibly make it work, or atleast debug further to help me find more about the problem? Help appreciated.

Answer 1

You are probably consuming/changing variables in the included template that influence the behavior of show_more.

To debug you could either run via debugger and step into the show_more templatetag code or add print statements into that code (it's python so that works just fine).

The relevant code is in django-el-pagination/el_pagination/templatetags/el_pagination_tags.py#330 (https://github.com/shtalinberg/django-el-pagination):

# This template tag could raise a PaginationError: you have to call
# *paginate* or *lazy_paginate* before including the showmore template.
data = utils.get_data_from_context(context)
page = data['page']
# show the template only if there is a next page
if page.has_next():
    request = context['request']
    page_number = page.next_page_number()
    # Generate the querystring.
    querystring_key = data['querystring_key']
    querystring = utils.get_querystring_for_page(
        request, page_number, querystring_key,
        default_number=data['default_number'])
    return {
        'label': label,
        'loading': loading,
        'class_name': class_name,
        'path': iri_to_uri(data['override_path'] or request.path),
        'querystring': querystring,
        'querystring_key': querystring_key,
        'request': request,
    }
# No next page, nothing to see.
return {}

show_more will be empty if either:

• page has reached the last iteration
• querystring is empty (see the template django-el-pagination/el_pagination/templates/el_pagination/show_more.html)

Answer 2

Solved by adding an if statement for my include tag like this:

        {% if i.replies.all %}
            {% include 'comment/comments.html' with comment_list=i.replies.all %}
        {% else %}

which only adds the include tag if that comment has 1 or more replies. Previously it would add an empty queryset if there were no replies, causing errors in the code.

Answer 3

try changing the name here. comment_list to something else.

{% include 'comment/comments.html' with replies=i.replies.all %}