The following mixins are used to construct Django’s editing views:
Note
Examples of how these are combined into editing views can be found at the documentation on Generic editing views.
A mixin class that provides facilities for creating and displaying forms.
Mixins
Methods and Attributes
A dictionary containing initial data for the form.
The form class to instantiate.
The URL to redirect to when the form is successfully processed.
Retrieve the form class to instantiate. By default form_class.
Instantiate an instance of form_class using get_form_kwargs().
Build the keyword arguments required to instantiate the form.
The initial argument is set to get_initial(). If the request is a POST or PUT, the request data (request.POST and request.FILES) will also be provided.
Determine the prefix for the generated form. Returns prefix by default.
Determine the URL to redirect to when the form is successfully validated. Returns success_url by default.
Redirects to get_success_url().
Renders a response, providing the invalid form as context.
A form mixin that works on ModelForms, rather than a standalone form.
Since this is a subclass of SingleObjectMixin, instances of this mixin have access to the model and queryset attributes, describing the type of object that the ModelForm is manipulating.
Mixins
Methods and Attributes
A model class. Can be explicitly provided, otherwise will be determined by examining self.object or queryset.
A list of names of fields. This is interpreted the same way as the Meta.fields attribute of ModelForm.
This is a required attribute if you are generating the form class automatically (e.g. using model). Omitting this attribute will result in all fields being used, but this behavior is deprecated and will be removed in Django 1.8.
The URL to redirect to when the form is successfully processed.
success_url may contain dictionary string formatting, which will be interpolated against the object’s field attributes. For example, you could use success_url="/polls/%(slug)s/" to redirect to a URL composed out of the slug field on a model.
Retrieve the form class to instantiate. If form_class is provided, that class will be used. Otherwise, a ModelForm will be instantiated using the model associated with the queryset, or with the model, depending on which attribute is provided.
Add the current instance (self.object) to the standard get_form_kwargs().
Determine the URL to redirect to when the form is successfully validated. Returns django.views.generic.edit.ModelFormMixin.success_url if it is provided; otherwise, attempts to use the get_absolute_url() of the object.
Saves the form instance, sets the current object for the view, and redirects to get_success_url().
Renders a response, providing the invalid form as context.
A mixin that provides basic HTTP GET and POST workflow.
Note
This is named ‘ProcessFormView’ and inherits directly from django.views.generic.base.View, but breaks if used independently, so it is more of a mixin.
Extends
Methods and Attributes
Constructs a form, then renders a response using a context that contains that form.
Constructs a form, checks the form for validity, and handles it accordingly.
Enables handling of the DELETE http action.
Methods and Attributes
The url to redirect to when the nominated object has been successfully deleted.
success_url may contain dictionary string formatting, which will be interpolated against the object’s field attributes. For example, you could use success_url="/parent/%(parent_id)s/" to redirect to a URL composed out of the parent_id field on a model.
Returns the url to redirect to when the nominated object has been successfully deleted. Returns success_url by default.
Jul 20, 2015