Comments on: How to use generic views in Django

By: d-duck

d-duck — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 10:05:02 +0000

it’s also worth mentioning that with create_update functions you can set ‘login_required’ to True. if you do that, Django will only allows these URLs for people that are logged in.

By: pulegium

pulegium — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 17:41:55 +0000

of course you can. add ‘extra_context’ entry to the dictionary and include as many as you like.

Your classes:

class Recipe(models.Model):
    ...
class Ingredient(models.Model):
    ...

Your ‘queryset’ dictionary:

dish_info = {
    'queryset': Ingredient.object.filter(<some filtering here, for example Recipe ID>),
    'extra_content': { 'recipe': Recipe.object.filer(<filtering for related content, may be category name>), }
}

Hope this helps

By: Kev

Kev — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 14:24:02 +0000

So the generic view can only display items from the same model, or can I pass another model to the template? Let’s say I want to display list of ingredients for a dish, but I also want to have a list of related recipes listed along? If that makes sense?

By: Kwijibo

Kwijibo — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 12:03:42 +0000

nice post, thanks! I’ve never used generic views before – kept on writing my own, but I guess I need to try.

Thanks anyway, Jan