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Class-based views
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=================
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A view is a callable which takes a request and returns a
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response. This can be more than just a function, and Django provides
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an example of some classes which can be used as views. These allow you
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to structure your views and reuse code by harnessing inheritance and
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mixins. There are also some generic views for simple tasks which we'll
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get to later, but you may want to design your own structure of
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reusable views which suits your use case. For full details, see the
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:doc:`class-based views reference documentation</ref/class-based-views/index>`.
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.. toctree::
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:maxdepth: 1
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intro
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generic-display
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generic-editing
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mixins
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Basic examples
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==============
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Django provides base view classes which will suit a wide range of applications.
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All views inherit from the :class:`~django.views.generic.base.View` class, which
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handles linking the view in to the URLs, HTTP method dispatching and other
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simple features. :class:`~django.views.generic.base.RedirectView` is for a
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simple HTTP redirect, and :class:`~django.views.generic.base.TemplateView`
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extends the base class to make it also render a template.
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Simple usage in your URLconf
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============================
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The simplest way to use generic views is to create them directly in your
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URLconf. If you're only changing a few simple attributes on a class-based view,
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you can simply pass them into the
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:meth:`~django.views.generic.base.View.as_view` method call itself::
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from django.conf.urls import patterns
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from django.views.generic import TemplateView
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urlpatterns = patterns('',
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(r'^about/', TemplateView.as_view(template_name="about.html")),
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)
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Any arguments passed to :meth:`~django.views.generic.base.View.as_view` will
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override attributes set on the class. In this example, we set ``template_name``
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on the ``TemplateView``. A similar overriding pattern can be used for the
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``url`` attribute on :class:`~django.views.generic.base.RedirectView`.
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Subclassing generic views
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=========================
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The second, more powerful way to use generic views is to inherit from an
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existing view and override attributes (such as the ``template_name``) or
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methods (such as ``get_context_data``) in your subclass to provide new values
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or methods. Consider, for example, a view that just displays one template,
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``about.html``. Django has a generic view to do this -
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:class:`~django.views.generic.base.TemplateView` - so we can just subclass it,
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and override the template name::
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# some_app/views.py
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from django.views.generic import TemplateView
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class AboutView(TemplateView):
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template_name = "about.html"
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Then we just need to add this new view into our URLconf.
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`~django.views.generic.base.TemplateView` is a class, not a function, so we
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point the URL to the :meth:`~django.views.generic.base.View.as_view` class
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method instead, which provides a function-like entry to class-based views::
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# urls.py
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from django.conf.urls import patterns
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from some_app.views import AboutView
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urlpatterns = patterns('',
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(r'^about/', AboutView.as_view()),
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)
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For more information on how to use the built in generic views, consult the next
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topic on :doc:`generic class based views</topics/class-based-views/generic-display>`.
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.. _supporting-other-http-methods:
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Supporting other HTTP methods
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-----------------------------
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Suppose somebody wants to access our book library over HTTP using the views
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as an API. The API client would connect every now and then and download book
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data for the books published since last visit. But if no new books appeared
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since then, it is a waste of CPU time and bandwidth to fetch the books from the
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database, render a full response and send it to the client. It might be
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preferable to ask the API when the most recent book was published.
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We map the URL to book list view in the URLconf::
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from django.conf.urls import patterns
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from books.views import BookListView
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urlpatterns = patterns('',
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(r'^books/$', BookListView.as_view()),
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)
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And the view::
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from django.http import HttpResponse
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from django.views.generic import ListView
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from books.models import Book
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class BookListView(ListView):
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model = Book
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def head(self, *args, **kwargs):
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last_book = self.get_queryset().latest('publication_date')
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response = HttpResponse('')
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# RFC 1123 date format
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response['Last-Modified'] = last_book.publication_date.strftime('%a, %d %b %Y %H:%M:%S GMT')
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return response
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If the view is accessed from a ``GET`` request, a plain-and-simple object
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list is returned in the response (using ``book_list.html`` template). But if
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the client issues a ``HEAD`` request, the response has an empty body and
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the ``Last-Modified`` header indicates when the most recent book was published.
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Based on this information, the client may or may not download the full object
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list.
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