Tutorial Writing your first Django app, part 5 Test a view

Let’s fix that. In Tutorial 4 we introduced a class-based view, based on ListView: polls/views.py We need to amend the get_queryset() method and change it so that it also checks the date by comparing it with timezone.now().

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Tutorial Writing your first Django app, part 5 Test a view

What we have works well; however, even though future questions don’t appear in the index, users can still reach them if they know or guess the right URL.

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Reference Class-based generic views - flattened index Detail Views

classDetailView Attributes (with optional accessor): content_type context_object_name [get_context_object_name()] extra_context http_method_names model pk_url_kwarg query_pk_and_slug queryset [get_queryset()] response_class [render_to_response()] slug_field [get_slug_field()] slug_url_kwarg template_engine template_name [get_template_names()] template_name_field template_name_suffix Methods as_view() dispatch() get() get_context_data() get_object() head() http_method_not_allowed() render_to_response() setup()

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Reference Class-based generic views - flattened index List Views

classListView Attributes (with optional accessor): allow_empty [get_allow_empty()] content_type context_object_name [get_context_object_name()] extra_context http_method_names model ordering [get_ordering()] paginate_by [get_paginate_by()] paginate_orphans [get_paginate_orphans()] paginator_class queryset [get_queryset()] response_class [render_to_response()] template_engine template_name [get_template_names()] template_name_suffix Methods as_view() dispatch() get() get_context_data() get_paginator() head() http_method_not_allowed() paginate_queryset() render_to_response() setup()

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Reference Class-based generic views - flattened index Editing views

classCreateView Attributes (with optional accessor): content_type context_object_name [get_context_object_name()] extra_context fields form_class [get_form_class()] http_method_names initial [get_initial()] model pk_url_kwarg prefix [get_prefix()] query_pk_and_slug queryset [get_queryset()] response_class [render_to_response()] slug_field [get_slug_field()] slug_url_kwarg success_url [get_success_url()] template_engine template_name [get_template_names()] template_name_field template_name_suffix Methods as_view() dispatch() form_invalid() form_valid() get() …

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Reference Class-based generic views - flattened index Editing views

classUpdateView Attributes (with optional accessor): content_type context_object_name [get_context_object_name()] extra_context fields form_class [get_form_class()] http_method_names initial [get_initial()] model pk_url_kwarg prefix [get_prefix()] query_pk_and_slug queryset [get_queryset()] response_class [render_to_response()] slug_field [get_slug_field()] slug_url_kwarg success_url [get_success_url()] template_engine template_name [get_template_names()] template_name_field template_name_suffix Methods as_view() dispatch() form_invalid() form_valid() get() …

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Reference Class-based generic views - flattened index Editing views

classDeleteView Attributes (with optional accessor): content_type context_object_name [get_context_object_name()] extra_context http_method_names model pk_url_kwarg query_pk_and_slug queryset [get_queryset()] response_class [render_to_response()] slug_field [get_slug_field()] slug_url_kwarg success_url [get_success_url()] template_engine template_name [get_template_names()] template_name_field template_name_suffix Methods as_view() delete() dispatch() get() get_context_data() get_object() head() http_method_not_allowed() post() render_to_response() setup()

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Reference Class-based generic views - flattened index Date-based views

Methods as_view() dispatch() get() get_context_data() get_date_list() get_dated_items() get_dated_queryset() get_paginator() head() http_method_not_allowed() paginate_queryset() render_to_response() setup()

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Reference Class-based generic views - flattened index Date-based views

Methods as_view() dispatch() get() get_context_data() get_date_list() get_dated_items() get_dated_queryset() get_next_month() get_paginator() get_previous_month() head() http_method_not_allowed() paginate_queryset() render_to_response() setup()

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Reference Class-based generic views - flattened index Date-based views

Methods as_view() dispatch() get() get_context_data() get_date_list() get_dated_items() get_dated_queryset() get_paginator() head() http_method_not_allowed() paginate_queryset() render_to_response() setup()

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Reference Class-based generic views - flattened index Date-based views

Methods as_view() dispatch() get() get_context_data() get_date_list() get_dated_items() get_dated_queryset() get_next_day() get_next_month() get_paginator() get_previous_day() get_previous_month() head() http_method_not_allowed() paginate_queryset() render_to_response() setup()

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Reference Class-based generic views - flattened index Date-based views

Methods as_view() dispatch() get() get_context_data() get_date_list() get_dated_items() get_dated_queryset() get_next_day() get_next_month() get_paginator() get_previous_day() get_previous_month() head() http_method_not_allowed() paginate_queryset() render_to_response() setup()

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Reference Generic date views

classArchiveIndexView[source] : A top-level index page showing the “latest” objects, by date. Objects with a date in the future are not included unless you set allow_future to True.

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Reference Generic date views

classYearArchiveView[source] : A yearly archive page showing all available months in a given year. Objects with a date in the future are not displayed unless you set allow_future to True.

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Reference Generic date views

classMonthArchiveView[source] : A monthly archive page showing all objects in a given month. Objects with a date in the future are not displayed unless you set allow_future to True.

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Reference Generic date views

classTodayArchiveView[source] : A day archive page showing all objects for today. This is exactly the same as django.views.generic.dates.DayArchiveView, except today’s date is used instead of the year/month/day arguments.

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Reference Generic display views

classdjango.views.generic.detail.DetailView : While this view is executing, self.object will contain the object that the view is operating upon. classdjango.views.generic.detail.BaseDetailView : A base view for displaying a single object.

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Reference Built-in class-based views API

Most generic views require the queryset key, which is a QuerySet instance; see Making queries for more information about QuerySet objects.

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Reference Editing mixins

classdjango.views.generic.edit.ModelFormMixin : A form mixin that provides facilities for working with a ModelForm, rather than a standalone form.

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Reference Multiple object mixins

`context_object_name` : Designates the name of the variable to use in the context. `get_queryset()` : Get the list of items for this view. This must be an iterable and may be a queryset (in which queryset-specific behavior will be enabled).

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