Class-Based Views

A short introduction to class-based views in Django 1.3. From the lightning talks at DjangoCon 2011

1. The Dumb & Lazy Guide to Class-based Views Kenneth Love (with apologies/thanks to Daniel Greenfeld)
2. Old
3. @login_required def awesome_view(request): if request.method == “POST”: form = AwesomeForm(request.POST) if form.is_valid(): form.save() return HttpResponseRedirect(reverse(‘awesome’)) else: form = AwesomeForm() return render(“awesome.html”, {‘form’: form}) @login_required def awesome_view(request): form = AwesomeForm(request.POST or None) if form.is_valid(): form.save() return HttpResponseRedirect(reverse(‘awesome’) return render(“awesome.html”, {‘form’: form})
4. New
5. Class MyAwesomeView(TemplateView): template_name = “awesome.html” def get(self, request): form = AwesomeForm() return self.render_to_response({‘form’: form}) def post(self, request): form = AwesomeForm(request.POST) if form.is_valid(): form.save() return HttpResponseRedirect(reverse(‘awesome’)) return self.render_to_response({‘form’: form})
6. Class MyAwesomeView(TemplateView): template_name = “awesome.html” def get(self, request): form = AwesomeForm() return self.render_to_response({‘form’: form}) def post(self, request): form = AwesomeForm(request.POST) if form.is_valid(): form.save() return HttpResponseRedirect(reverse(‘awesome’)) return self.render_to_response({‘form’: form})
7. Class MyAwesomeView(TemplateView): template_name = “awesome.html” def get(self, request): form = AwesomeForm() return self.render_to_response({‘form’: form}) def post(self, request): form = AwesomeForm(request.POST) if form.is_valid(): form.save() return HttpResponseRedirect(reverse(‘awesome’)) return self.render_to_response({‘form’: form})
8. Class MyAwesomeView(TemplateView): template_name = “awesome.html” def get(self, request): form = AwesomeForm() return self.render_to_response({‘form’: form}) def post(self, request): form = AwesomeForm(request.POST) if form.is_valid(): form.save() return HttpResponseRedirect(reverse(‘awesome’)) return self.render_to_response({‘form’: form})
9. But where’s @login_required?
10. Class MyAwesomeView(TemplateView): template_name = “awesome.html” @method_decorator(login_required) def dispatch(self, *args, **kwargs): return super(MyAwesomeView, self).dispatch(*args, **kwargs) def get(self, request): form = AwesomeForm() return self.render_to_response({‘form’: form}) def post(self, request): form = AwesomeForm(request.POST) if form.is_valid(): form.save() return HttpResponseRedirect(reverse(‘awesome’)) return self.render_to_response({‘form’: form})
11. URLs
12. from project.views import MyAwesomeView [...] url(r’^awesome/$’, MyAwesomeView.as_view(), name=”awesome”) [...]
13. Thanks! But we need more docs about class-based views.