Django Generic Views Minimum Example: Functional vs. Generic Views
Example
Example for a functional view to create an object. Excluding comments and blank lines, we need 15 lines of code:
# imports
from django.shortcuts import render_to_response
from django.http import HttpResponseRedirect
from .models import SampleObject
from .forms import SampleObjectForm
# view functioon
def create_object(request):
# when request method is 'GET', show the template
if request.method == GET:
# perform actions, such as loading a model form
form = SampleObjectForm()
return render_to_response('template.html', locals())
# if request method is 'POST', create the object and redirect
if request.method == POST:
form = SampleObjectForm(request.POST)
# save object and redirect to success page if form is valid
if form.is_valid:
form.save()
return HttpResponseRedirect('url_to_redirect_to')
# load template with form and show errors
else:
return render_to_response('template.html', locals())
Example for a 'Class-Based Generic View' to perform the same task. We only need 7 lines of code to achieve the same task:
from django.views.generic import CreateView
from .models import SampleObject
from .forms import SampleObjectForm
class CreateObject(CreateView):
model = SampleObject
form_class = SampleObjectForm
success_url = 'url_to_redirect_to'
