I am developing a notification system in Django where users receive notifications when someone comments on an article they posted in the app. However, I am encountering an issue where I cannot modify the value of a field in the notification model when a user clicks a notification button in the template. Let me provide an example: When I ask a question on Stack Overflow and someone comments on the question, I receive a notification stating that someone has commented on my question. When I click the URL in the template, the red badge disappears, indicating that the author of the question has already read the comment on that question. This is precisely the functionality I am aiming to achieve here. However, using the current method in my views.py file, the method returns an error stating: 'int' object has no attribute 'is_read'.
def all_article(request): articles = Article.objects.all() notifications = Notification.objects.filter(user=request.user) unread_notifications = Notification.objects.filter(user=request.user, is_read=False).count() if unread_notifications.is_read == False: unread_notifications.is_read == True unread_notifications.save() return render(request, 'article.html', {"articles":articles, "notifications":notifications, "unread_notifications":unread_notifications})models.py:
class Notification(models.Model): user = models.ForeignKey(settings.AUTH_USER_MODEL, on_delete=models.CASCADE) message = models.TextField() link = models.URLField(unique=True) is_read = models.BooleanField(default=False) created_at = models.DateTimeField(auto_now_add=True) def __str__(self): return str(self.user)template:
<nav class="navbar navbar-light bg-light shadow-sm bg-body"><div class="container"><a class="navbar-brand" href=""><h5>Ex-Muslims of Northern Nigeria</h5></a><ul class="navbar-nav ms-auto flex-row"><li class="nav-item"><div class="offcanvas offcanvas-top" tabindex="-1" id="offcanvasTop" aria-labelledby="offcanvasTopLabel"><div class="offcanvas-header"><h5 id="offcanvasTopLabel">Notifications</h5><button type="button" class="btn-close text-reset" data-bs-dismiss="offcanvas" aria-label="Close"></button></div><div class="offcanvas-body"> {% for notification in notifications reversed %}<ul class="list-group my-2"><a href="{{ notification.link }}"><li class="list-group-item"> {{ notification.message }}</li></a></ul> {% endfor %}</div></div></li></ul><ul class="navbar-nav ms-auto flex-row"><li class="nav-item me-3"><a class="btn btn-light shadow-sm bg-body" href="{% url 'Post' %}"> Add</a></li><li class="nav-item me-3"><a class="btn btn-light shadow-sm bg-body position-relative" href="" type="button" data-bs-toggle="offcanvas" data-bs-target="#offcanvasTop" aria-controls="offcanvasTop"> Notifications {% if unread_notifications %}<span class="position-absolute top-0 start-100 translate-middle badge rounded-pill bg-danger"> {{unread_notifications}}</span> {% endif %}</a></li><li class="nav-item"><a class="btn btn-light shadow-sm bg-body" href="{% url 'Profile' %}"> Profile</a></li></ul></div></nav>