Class-Based Views - Python

 

Class-Based Views

The view functions, you have seen earlier, involve a lot of coding effort.

For responses that need a static page or a listing page, Django provides class-based views.

Using class-based views,

• Code organization is better.
• Specific HTTP methods like GET and POST can be addressed.
• Easy to build reusable components.
• No need to use render, redirect functions to send an HTTP response.

Let's consider a sample static content page written in static.html file.

Using a class-based view TemplateView, the template can be called as shown.

from django.views.generic import TemplateView

class StaticView(TemplateView):
   template_name = "static.html"