USER STORY: Comment on posts

[MaxBWiseman]

As a site user I can leave comments on other users posts so that I may express my thoughts and feelings with others

Acceptance criteria

• Be able to view comments on a single post in a section below each post
  • Comments are displayed in chronological order ✅
  • Total number of comments is displayed on post ✅
• Users can use a well structured and accessible form to post comments
  • Users can type and submit comments ✅
  • Users can edit or delete their own posts ✅

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• Users may reply to comments on a post
  • Creates a nested comment ✅

[MaxBWiseman]

PBI Ready to be picked up

15/09/2024 21:26

For the 2nd Iteration milestone Must-Haves

[MaxBWiseman]

PBI Now being developed

15/09/2024 22:45

[MaxBWiseman]

Bug

17/09/2024 16:10

• Experienced a bug that caused the form to throw a "this field is required error" . this was due to some jquery i used to reset the form after its posted, here is the naughty code
• Fixed by removing

// Reset the form on submit
$('#myForm').on('submit', function() {
    $(this).trigger("reset");
});

[MaxBWiseman]

PBI Complete

20/09/2024

• A little while ago I implemented MPTT Models to create a tree structure for the comments, this allows for easy retrieval of comments and their children, displaying relatively easier nested comments, I came across MPTT Models here - https://blog.martinfitzpatrick.com/django-threaded-comments/
• PBI moved to review
• Bugs
  • Bugs with nesting comments, fixed with MPTT Models,
  • Bug with "this field is required error" fixed by removing form reset jquery

[MaxBWiseman]

Testing Bug

20/09/2024 18:54

• There is a bug where I cannot create any test databases in django
• Tests on hold till fixed

[MaxBWiseman]

Bug fixed and Testing performed

21/09/2024 16:07

• UnitTest bug fixed with help from my tutor # django_heroku.settings(locals()) this line was the culprit for causing bug above this comment, I included it with the django-heroku package, i was using this as it provides a quick way to set up DATABASE_URL, ALLOWED_HOSTS, WhiteNoise (for static assets), Logging, and Heroku CI for your application. I have now decided to go with the standard approach as this should go towards my learning
• Testing of the comment model and post detail views performed
• PBI now Done