Hi everybody,
being new in Django, I'd like to ask you for some tips about what
should be in views.py and what shouldn't be.
I'm writing a blog app with custom views.py. I know that it would be a
lot easier (and wiser) to use generic views for what I'm trying to
accomplish, but I'd like to learn new things along the way, so I
decided to write my own views.py. Anyway, that's what bugs me:
def get_all_tags():
tags = []
tags_db = Tag.objects.all()
for tag in tags_db:
tags.append({
'tag': tag.tag,
'url': tag.get_absolute_url()
})
return tags
def get_entries_list(entries_list):
entries = []
for entry in entries_list:
entries.append({
'body': mark_safe(entry.body),
'pub_date': entry.pub_date,
'title': entry.title,
'url': entry.get_absolute_url(),
'tags': entry.get_tags(),
})
return entries
def show_entries_by_day(request, year, month, day):
now = datetime.datetime.now()
# Check if day is in the future
if year + month + day > ''.join([str(now.year), str(now.month),
str(now.day)]):
raise Http404
entries = Entry.objects.filter(pub_date__lte=now,
pub_date__year=year,
pub_date__month=month,
pub_date__day=day,
status=1)
return render_to_response('blog_entry.html', {'entries':
get_entries_list(entries), 'tags': get_all_tags()})
I have a function similar to show_entries_by_year() for month, day,
tag and slug. Now, for get_all_tags(), I'm planning to write a
template tag that would replace this function, but I still don't know
what to do with get_entries_list(). I only made this function in order
to not repeat myself. Is there a way to get rid of get_entries_list()
and somehow make my views.py cleaner? I tried to pass entries directly
to the template but it didn't quite work (maybe I'm missing
something).
I searched the web for some examples, but it's hard to find apps that
don't use generic views (at least I didn't find them), so I decided to
ask here.
Thanks
Matic Žgur
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