#14167: Using Instances in Generic Create/Update/Delete ----------------------------------------+----------------------------------- Reporter: monokrome | Owner: nobody Status: new | Milestone: Component: Generic views | Version: 1.2 Keywords: generic views DRY instance | Stage: Unreviewed Has_patch: 0 | ----------------------------------------+----------------------------------- I would like to proposal that django's create/update/delete methods be able to receive an instance of a model instead of a class reference.
Albeit, it is not difficult to create your own create/update/delete method - using django's generic views would allow an application to easily inherit any additional functionality that might be added to these generic views in the future. It also provides the added benefit of centralizing the work happening to the models, and would help model code follow the DRY principal in many cases. Here is an example of how a generic view may be used with this idea in mind. In my opinion, this is much more readable than working with the form yourself: {{{ # Assume that we have a model `Job` with a foreign key `user` from models import Job def create_job(request): """ Create a new job. """ job_instance = Job() job_instance.user = request.user kwargs = { 'instance': job_instance, 'login_required': True, 'template_name': 'jobs/create.html', } return create_object(request, **kwargs) }}} -- Ticket URL: <http://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/14167> Django <http://code.djangoproject.com/> The Web framework for perfectionists with deadlines. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django updates" group. To post to this group, send email to django-upda...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to django-updates+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-updates?hl=en.