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Fixed #10336 -- Added improved documentation of generic views. Thanks to Jacob and Adrian for the original text (from the DjangoBook), and Ramiro for doing the work of porting the docs.
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@ -98,10 +98,13 @@ The view layer
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:ref:`Storage API <ref-files-storage>` |
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:ref:`Managing files <topics-files>` |
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:ref:`Custom storage <howto-custom-file-storage>`
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* **Advanced:**
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:ref:`Generic views <ref-generic-views>` |
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:ref:`Generating CSV <howto-outputting-csv>` |
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* **Generic views:**
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:ref:`Overview<topics-generic-views>` |
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:ref:`Built-in generic views<ref-generic-views>`
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* **Advanced:**
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:ref:`Generating CSV <howto-outputting-csv>` |
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:ref:`Generating PDF <howto-outputting-pdf>`
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* **Middleware:**
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@ -130,11 +130,6 @@ TODO
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The work is mostly done, but here's what's left, in rough order of priority.
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* Fix up generic view docs: adapt Chapter 9 of the Django Book (consider
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this TODO item my permission and license) into
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``topics/generic-views.txt``; remove the intro material from
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``ref/generic-views.txt`` and just leave the function reference.
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* Change the "Added/changed in development version" callouts to proper
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Sphinx ``.. versionadded::`` or ``.. versionchanged::`` directives.
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@ -9,67 +9,18 @@ again and again. In Django, the most common of these patterns have been
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abstracted into "generic views" that let you quickly provide common views of
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an object without actually needing to write any Python code.
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Django's generic views contain the following:
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A general introduction to generic views can be found in the :ref:`topic guide
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<topics-generic-views>`.
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* A set of views for doing list/detail interfaces.
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* A set of views for year/month/day archive pages and associated
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detail and "latest" pages (for example, the Django weblog's year_,
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month_, day_, detail_, and latest_ pages).
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* A set of views for creating, editing, and deleting objects.
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.. _year: http://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2005/
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.. _month: http://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2005/jul/
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.. _day: http://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2005/jul/20/
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.. _detail: http://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2005/jul/20/autoreload/
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.. _latest: http://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/
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All of these views are used by creating configuration dictionaries in
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your URLconf files and passing those dictionaries as the third member of the
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URLconf tuple for a given pattern. For example, here's the URLconf for the
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simple weblog app that drives the blog on djangoproject.com::
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from django.conf.urls.defaults import *
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from django_website.apps.blog.models import Entry
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info_dict = {
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'queryset': Entry.objects.all(),
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'date_field': 'pub_date',
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}
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urlpatterns = patterns('django.views.generic.date_based',
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(r'^(?P<year>\d{4})/(?P<month>[a-z]{3})/(?P<day>\w{1,2})/(?P<slug>[-\w]+)/$', 'object_detail', info_dict),
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(r'^(?P<year>\d{4})/(?P<month>[a-z]{3})/(?P<day>\w{1,2})/$', 'archive_day', info_dict),
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(r'^(?P<year>\d{4})/(?P<month>[a-z]{3})/$', 'archive_month', info_dict),
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(r'^(?P<year>\d{4})/$', 'archive_year', info_dict),
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(r'^$', 'archive_index', info_dict),
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)
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As you can see, this URLconf defines a few options in ``info_dict``.
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``'queryset'`` gives the generic view a ``QuerySet`` of objects to use (in this
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case, all of the ``Entry`` objects) and tells the generic view which model is
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being used.
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Documentation of each generic view follows, along with a list of all keyword
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arguments that a generic view expects. Remember that as in the example above,
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arguments may either come from the URL pattern (as ``month``, ``day``,
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``year``, etc. do above) or from the additional-information dictionary (as for
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``queryset``, ``date_field``, etc.).
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This reference contains details of Django's built-in generic views, along with
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a list of all keyword arguments that a generic view expects. Remember that
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arguments may either come from the URL pattern or from the ``extra_context``
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additional-information dictionary.
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Most generic views require the ``queryset`` key, which is a ``QuerySet``
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instance; see :ref:`topics-db-queries` for more information about ``QuerySet``
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objects.
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Most views also take an optional ``extra_context`` dictionary that you can use
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to pass any auxiliary information you wish to the view. The values in the
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``extra_context`` dictionary can be either functions (or other callables) or
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other objects. Functions are evaluated just before they are passed to the
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template. However, note that QuerySets retrieve and cache their data when they
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are first evaluated, so if you want to pass in a QuerySet via
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``extra_context`` that is always fresh you need to wrap it in a function or
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lambda that returns the QuerySet.
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"Simple" generic views
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======================
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@ -801,12 +752,12 @@ specify the page number in the URL in one of two ways:
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/objects/?page=3
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* To loop over all the available page numbers, use the ``page_range``
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variable. You can iterate over the list provided by ``page_range``
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* To loop over all the available page numbers, use the ``page_range``
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variable. You can iterate over the list provided by ``page_range``
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to create a link to every page of results.
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These values and lists are 1-based, not 0-based, so the first page would be
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represented as page ``1``.
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represented as page ``1``.
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For more on pagination, read the :ref:`pagination documentation
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<topics-pagination>`.
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@ -818,7 +769,7 @@ As a special case, you are also permitted to use ``last`` as a value for
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/objects/?page=last
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This allows you to access the final page of results without first having to
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This allows you to access the final page of results without first having to
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determine how many pages there are.
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Note that ``page`` *must* be either a valid page number or the value ``last``;
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@ -909,7 +860,7 @@ library <topics-forms-index>` to build and display the form.
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**Description:**
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A page that displays a form for creating an object, redisplaying the form with
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validation errors (if there are any) and saving the object.
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validation errors (if there are any) and saving the object.
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**Required arguments:**
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@ -14,6 +14,7 @@ Introductions to all the key parts of Django you'll need to know:
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forms/index
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forms/modelforms
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templates
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generic-views
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files
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testing
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auth
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