Display Views - ListView - Python

 

Display Views - ListView

The view is a display view representing a list of objects, identified by self.object_list.

For the same example as earlier, if you want to list all the articles available for a specific date, the ListView can be used instead of DetailView

from django.views.generic.list import ListView
...
class ArticleListView(ListView):
    model = Article

    def get_context_data(self, **kwargs):
        context = super().get_context_data(**kwargs)
        context['now'] = timezone.now()
        return context

The URL conf definition is the same as previous.

urlpatterns = [
    path('', ArticleListView.as_view(), name='article-list'),
]

The article headlines can be listed in an HTML file article_list.html by looping through the list of article objects as shown.

<ul>
{% for article in object_list %}
    <li>{{ article.pub_date|date }} - {{ article.headline }}</li>
{% empty %}
    <li>No articles yet.</li>
{% endfor %}
</ul>