Create view to get dealer list about agfzb-cloudappdevelopment_capstone HOT 5 CLOSED

So it seems one step of the instructions wanted to use the web action URL instead of the API to get all the dealers...
The link includes my email in it, so I'd rather not. (It'd also require an extra step to authenticate when there's a perfectly good public API link setup for it already.)

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BUG: Actually Calling the API in view

For whatever reason, Django throws a KeyError when I try to access the Dealer info from the list of Dealership JSON objects received. (After calling the API method in the view)

Which, I see we are receiving....

I can print each dealer (instead of creating new CarDealer) and the whole dictionary is returned, as expected.

I tried recreating something similar outside the project and it works as expected:

#test ways to unpack dictionaries stored in lists...

# our dictionary list:
# this is essentially what our "dealers" list looks like.
d_list = [
    {'a':1,'b':"two",'c': False},
    {'a':"one", 'b':True, 'c':3},
    {'a':True,'b':2, 'c':"three"}
]

# this is what our plain CarModel class looks like
class Model:
    def __init__(self, a, b ,c) -> None:
        self.a = a
        self.b = b
        self.c = c
    
    def __str__(self) -> str:
        return self.a

d_list.items() # Error: this is a list object

for d in d_list:
    d.items()


for d in d_list:
    for k, v in d.items():
        # here making some sort of factory/higher order func would be useful...
        # or use a constructor method, yeah
        dict(k=v) # this ends up making a bunch of little dictionaries that all have a key of 'k'


o_list = []

for d in d_list:
    # d is accessing the individual dict entry, right?
    new_obj = Model(a=d['a'], b=d['b'], c=d['c'])
    o_list.append(new_obj)

# that works as expected...
# o_list is now a collection of objects.
# objs, whose properties we can access with a .
o_list[0].a
o_list[2].b
o_list[1].c

# this creates a (dict length ** 2) number of objects... so 9 in our case.
# however this was one solution that Django accepted at one point
# except I can't seem to replicate it now since I didn't keep the code.
x_list = []
for d in d_list:
    for i in d:
        new_obj = Model(a=d['a'], b=d['b'], c=d['c'])
        x_list.append(new_obj)

Not sure what's going on here... (wrong type? Data suddenly disappears?)
This practically crashes the whole front page.

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test_access = dealers[0]['address'] works as expected. 🙃

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Since Django worked fine with a second for-loop being used to access each key in the dict, used a while loop to short circuit it before making a new obj per key.

I could also be wrong about my assumption that each dealer obj is in fact a dictionary, but IDK... it was half working and the mockup also worked.

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Still need a separate "get dealers by state" method (and thus a new API link.)

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