Django How to see the session data insted of the object reference

Question:

Im trying to start using session in django, Im trying to see the data in my session but im just getting the object reference not the data

console:

<cart.cart.Cart object at 0x7f6994753160>

views.py

def cart_view(request):
    cart = Cart(request)
    print(cart)
    if request.user.is_authenticated:
        return render(request, 'cart/cart_page.html')
    else:
        return redirect('account:login')

cart.py

class Cart:
    def __init__(self, request):

        self.session = request.session
        cart = self.session.get('cart')
        if not cart :
            cart = self.session['cart'] = {}  #cria a sessão cart
        self.product = cart
Asked By: kaynan felipe rodrigues vieira

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Answers:

you can override the __str__ method on anyclass to control how it is converted to a string… you can also override the __repr__ method if you need to as well

class Cart:
    def __init__(self, request):

        self.session = request.session
        cart = self.session.get('cart')
        if not cart :
            cart = self.session['cart'] = {}  #cria a sessão cart
        self.product = cart

   def __str__(self):
       return f"<CartObject {self.product}>"

...
print(cart)
Answered By: Joran Beasley

You can define new method for return your self.product

For example

def get_product(self):
    return self.product

or you can just override str function:

def __str__(self):
    return f"{self.product}"
Answered By: Ali Koçak

print(request.session.items())

Answered By: Dinky Arora