Buzzcoding

This post will cover fetching comments associated with a particular post and rendering the comments using Jinja2 template. The concept is pretty much the same as using the db model.

Check out the below code.

class Reply(ndb.Model):
    content = ndb.TextProperty(required = True)
    p_key= ndb.KeyProperty(Post)
    created = ndb.DateTimeProperty(auto_now_add = True)
    last_modified = ndb.DateTimeProperty(auto_now = True)

class PostPage(Handler):
    def get(self, post_id):
        key = ndb.Key('Post', int(post_id), parent=question_key())
        post = key.get()

        params = dict(post=post)

        #fetch all the comments and filter it by key
        if Reply.query():
            reply = Reply.query(Reply.p_key == key)
            params['reply'] = reply

        self.render("permalink.html", **params)

I first built a key of the post and fetched the post to pass it into params. Then I fetched all the comments using the query method and filtered it by setting the key of the comments(“p_key” property inside the “Reply” entity) to the key of the post. The key is stored into the Reply entity so you can only filter the comments associated with the post.

Lastly, I rendered my HTML template.

The below code is the template.

<div>
    {% for r in reply %}
        <div>{{r.content | safe}}</div>
    {% endfor %}
</div>

Now you have a commenting system for your web app!