This could probably be two separate github issues, but I keep them together just to make things easier. I break them into section below though.

I’ve reproduced these errors in several environments:

• python 3.9 & 3.11
• django 4.2.7 & 5.0.2
• django-unicorn 0.59.0
• pip & conda-forge installs

And I’m using Chrome for my browser

issue 1: html not refreshing

I was struggling with this in a personal project, so I went back and was actually able to reproduce the issue with the example from the docs. I built the parent component from this example in the docs exactly, and only added one line:

# added to `updated_search` method in `filter.py`
print(f"'{query}' matches {len(self.parent.books)} books")

Here are the minimal django project files. Note, sqlite file has everything loaded already, so you can just use python manage.py runserver to run the app: mysite_example1.zip

Once on the books/ page, you can see that the unicorn calls & backend is working as expected but the page doesn’t refresh:

No matter what I try, I can’t get the html to update when the filter component is used.

issue 2: parent components can’t be direct views

This is the exact same app as before, except I’m using TableView.as_view() instead of adding the component to an index.html: mysite_example2.zip

When you first spin up your django server, the view works as expected (except for what I describe in issue 1). However, once the page is refreshed and used a 2nd time, the page fails and cannot be loaded:

^^ note in the logs that this happens after a page refresh. This is consistent and happening in my personal project as well.

Here’s the full error traceback:

Internal Server Error: /books/
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Users\nxj625\AppData\Local\anaconda3\envs\uni2\Lib\site-packages\django\core\handlers\exception.py", line 55, in inner
    response = get_response(request)
               ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "C:\Users\nxj625\AppData\Local\anaconda3\envs\uni2\Lib\site-packages\django\core\handlers\base.py", line 220, in _get_response
    response = response.render()
               ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "<decorator-gen-2>", line 2, in render
  File "C:\Users\nxj625\AppData\Local\anaconda3\envs\uni2\Lib\site-packages\django_unicorn\decorators.py", line 20, in timed
    result = func(*args, **kwargs)
             ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "C:\Users\nxj625\AppData\Local\anaconda3\envs\uni2\Lib\site-packages\django_unicorn\components\unicorn_template_response.py", line 125, in render
    response = super().render()
               ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "C:\Users\nxj625\AppData\Local\anaconda3\envs\uni2\Lib\site-packages\django\template\response.py", line 114, in render
    self.content = self.rendered_content
                   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "C:\Users\nxj625\AppData\Local\anaconda3\envs\uni2\Lib\site-packages\django\template\response.py", line 92, in rendered_content
    return template.render(context, self._request)
           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "C:\Users\nxj625\AppData\Local\anaconda3\envs\uni2\Lib\site-packages\django\template\backends\django.py", line 61, in render
    return self.template.render(context)
           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "C:\Users\nxj625\AppData\Local\anaconda3\envs\uni2\Lib\site-packages\django\template\base.py", line 171, in render
    return self._render(context)
           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "C:\Users\nxj625\AppData\Local\anaconda3\envs\uni2\Lib\site-packages\django\template\base.py", line 163, in _render
    return self.nodelist.render(context)
           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "C:\Users\nxj625\AppData\Local\anaconda3\envs\uni2\Lib\site-packages\django\template\base.py", line 1000, in render
    return SafeString("".join([node.render_annotated(context) for node in self]))
                              ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "C:\Users\nxj625\AppData\Local\anaconda3\envs\uni2\Lib\site-packages\django\template\base.py", line 1000, in <listcomp>
    return SafeString("".join([node.render_annotated(context) for node in self]))
                               ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "C:\Users\nxj625\AppData\Local\anaconda3\envs\uni2\Lib\site-packages\django\template\base.py", line 961, in render_annotated
    return self.render(context)
           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "C:\Users\nxj625\AppData\Local\anaconda3\envs\uni2\Lib\site-packages\django_unicorn\templatetags\unicorn.py", line 179, in render
    self.view = UnicornView.create(
                ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "<decorator-gen-19>", line 2, in create
  File "C:\Users\nxj625\AppData\Local\anaconda3\envs\uni2\Lib\site-packages\django_unicorn\decorators.py", line 20, in timed
    result = func(*args, **kwargs)
             ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "C:\Users\nxj625\AppData\Local\anaconda3\envs\uni2\Lib\site-packages\django_unicorn\components\unicorn_view.py", line 843, in create
    cached_component._cache_component(parent=parent, component_args=component_args, **kwargs)
  File "C:\Users\nxj625\AppData\Local\anaconda3\envs\uni2\Lib\site-packages\django_unicorn\components\unicorn_view.py", line 411, in _cache_component
    cache_full_tree(self)
  File "C:\Users\nxj625\AppData\Local\anaconda3\envs\uni2\Lib\site-packages\django_unicorn\cacher.py", line 104, in cache_full_tree
    with CacheableComponent(root) as caching:
  File "C:\Users\nxj625\AppData\Local\anaconda3\envs\uni2\Lib\site-packages\django_unicorn\cacher.py", line 40, in __enter__
    if component.component_id in self._state:
       ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
AttributeError: 'PointerUnicornView' object has no attribute 'component_id'