Django class-based views

Work on ticket #6735.

Installation

$ python setup.py install

Or for the moment:

$ pip install -e git@github.com:bfirsh/django-class-based-views.git#egg=django-cbv

Usage

Inherit your own class-based views from existing ones listed below:

class AuthorDetail(class_based_views.DetailView):
    queryset = Author.objects.all()

Declare your view in your URLs like you already do for classic views:

import views
from django.conf.urls.defaults import *

urlpatterns = patterns('',
    url(r'^detail/author/(?P<pk>\d+)/$',
        views.AuthorDetail(),
        name="author_detail"),
)

Note: you must declare an instance of the class in your URLs, not the class in order to avoid shared attributes across requests.

Views

CRUD views

• ListView: Render some list of objects, set by self.queryset. This can be any iterable of items, not just a queryset.

• DetailView: Render a "detail" view of an object. By default this is a model instance looked up from self.queryset, but the view will support display of any object by overriding self.get_object().

• CreateView: View for creating an object.

• UpdateView: View for updating an object.

• DeleteView: View for deleting an object retrieved with self.get_object().

HTTP support: note that you can use POST or PUT HTTP verb for creating/editing an object and POST or DELETE for deleting an object.

Extra views

• PaginatedListView
• ProcessFormView
• ProcessModelFormView
• DisplayFormView
• DisplayModelFormView

Date-based views

• ArchiveView
• YearView
• MonthView
• WeekView
• DayView
• TodayView
• DateDetailView

API

TODO