#28331: extra_context argument on TemplateView.as_view
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Reporter: Jeremy | Owner: nobody
Type: Uncategorized | Status: new
Component: Uncategorized | Version: 1.11
Severity: Normal | Keywords:
Triage Stage: Unreviewed | Has patch: 0
Needs documentation: 0 | Needs tests: 0
Patch needs improvement: 0 | Easy pickings: 0
UI/UX: 0 |
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It used to be possible to pass extra_context to direct_to_template. Then
direct_to_template was replaced with TemplateView.as_view ... but the
latter function never got the ability to take an extra_context arg.
As a result there are now half a trillion (rough estimate) re-
implementations of the following:
{{{
class StaticPageView(TemplateView):
context = None
def get_context_data(self, **kwargs):
context = super(StaticPageView, self).get_context_data(**kwargs)
context.update(self.context or {})
return context
}}}
You can find them across the web, across StackOverflow, etc. Everyone has
to make this one stupid class just so that they can pass an extra context
to template-only views.
This is counter-productive: the whole point of a framework is to *prevent*
everyone from having to re-invent the same code. Adding yet another re-
implementation of StaticPageView does nothing to improve the code, it only
clutters it up with boilerplate.
Please fix this by allowing as_view to take an extra_context arg
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Ticket URL: <https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/28331>
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