"In my experience the biggest benefit of class-based views are when you are doing a bunch of similar stuff that's just a tiny bit different, for which you can just subclass the view class for the bits you need to change"
Yap ... that's exactly why I'm looking for a class-based views. thank you Daniel On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 1:09 PM, Justin Lilly<justinli...@gmail.com> wrote: > > It's also worth noting that you _can_ use a class for a view. Views > just have to be python callables. For more info on this, check out > Marty Alchin's Pro Django and the python doc's for __call__. > > In my experience the biggest benefit of class-based views are when you > are doing a bunch of similar stuff that's just a tiny bit different, > for which you can just subclass the view class for the bits you need > to change. > > Hope that helps. > > -justin > > > > On Jun 29, 2009, at 6:28 AM, Raja <rajas...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> >> You could use decorators (following the Decorator pattern) to do pre/ >> post interceptors. For e.g. >> http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/topics/auth/#django.contrib.auth.decorators.login_required >> shows a login_required decorator to make sure that those views can >> only be accessed after logging in. >> >> -- Raja >> >> >> On Jun 29, 3:16 pm, Daniel Guryca <dun...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> OK >>> As I have said I'm coming from java so it's not so easy to change my >>> mind to a totally different approach. >>> >>> But I'm still curious if there is any before or after interceptor >>> in django. >>> Or how to implement one using a django style. >>> >>> Thank you >>> Daniel >>> >>> On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 12:05 PM, James >>> Gregory<james....@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>>> On Jun 29, 10:59 am, Daniel Guryca <dun...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>>> Hi, >>> >>>>> I'm very new to django and python .. coming from java world. >>> >>>>> I really like django structure (apps, ...) but I do not >>>>> understand how >>>>> one can create some base class where all general methods same for >>>>> all >>>>> views could be put. >>>>> You know I can see that views.py is only a module I would rather >>>>> expect class in it and all methods part of this class. Then this >>>>> class >>>>> could extend my BaseViewClass. >>> >>>>> Is something like before and after interceptors possible in >>>>> django ? >>>>> Then I would not need any base class. >>> >>>>> Thank you. >>>>> Cheers >>>>> Daniel >>> >>>> A class is just a collection of methods and data. In Django views do >>>> not have any data, because that is fetched from the model. So >>>> where is >>>> the advantage of having your methods part of a class rather than >>>> just >>>> functions which are part of the module? It would just mean you would >>>> have to add one extra layer of indentation to everything. If you >>>> want, >>>> think of the views.py module as being a class with no data members. >>> >>>> James >> > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
