django - How do I look in a list of items, find the user and see if it exists in a different table and change the template as a result? -

i have simple follow/following setup running.

when user (request.user) see's object likes, can click follow button , follow user.

when returns want button on object not enabled cause following user.

what happening in background, follower/followee record being made. object in question has id of followee. can't figure out how add representation object_list.

in rest add field serializer , take care of it. evaluate truthiness of new field.

any ideas on how accomplish this?

you should separate query , make test in template.

view:

def objects_list(request):     ...     return render(request, "the_template_path.html", {          'objects': objectname.objects.all()[0:100],          'followed_object_ids': objectname.objects.filter(follower=request.user).values_list('id', flat=true)     }) 

template:

{% object in objects %}    {% if object.id in followed_object_ids %}        ...    {% else %}        ...    {% endif %} {% endfor %} 

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that started. don't want use generic names object.

it better move followed_object_ids query in middleware don't (really useful if have featured objects widgets everywhere instance).