How to use MPTT for django to get all children?

Question

I'm trying to get all the children of a category:

def list_sub(self, category_name):
   # this will return the parent if exists
   category = Category.objects.filter(seo_title__exact = seo_title).filter(lang__exact = 'pt-PT').filter(level__exact = 1)

   if category:
      # but this doesn't work and in the documentation there are no examples
      # of how to get it. See link about the method
      sub_categories = category.get_children()

http://django-mptt.github.com/django-mptt/models.html#get-children

Update1:

qc = Category.objects.filter(seo_title__exact = cat).filter(lang__exact = 'pt-PT').filter(level__exact = 1)
category = qc.get()

if category:
    qsc = category.get_children()
    sub_categories = qsc.get()

now I get this error: "get() returned more than one Category -- it returned 7! Lookup parameters were {}"

thanks

Answer 1

Your problem is not with MPTT. The issue is that category is a queryset, not an instance - get_children() is an model method, not a queryset method.

Use get instead of filter.