Question

I am new to Django and my DeleteView is written like this:

class ObjectDelete(DeleteView):
    def post(self, request, *args, **kwargs):
        blah blah
        return super(ObjectDelete, self).post(request, *args, **kwargs)

I am confused as to how I will delete the object as I have not seen object.delete anywhere in the function.

Answer 1

The actual deleting of objects is done by the DeletionMixin, which is a parent of django.views.generic.edit.BaseDeleteView which the DeleteView uses.

Here is the DeletionMixin:

class DeletionMixin(object):
    """
    A mixin providing the ability to delete objects
    """
    success_url = None

    def delete(self, request, *args, **kwargs):
        """
        Calls the delete() method on the fetched object and then
        redirects to the success URL.
        """
        self.object = self.get_object()
        self.object.delete()
        return HttpResponseRedirect(self.get_success_url())

    # Add support for browsers which only accept GET and POST for now.
    def post(self, *args, **kwargs):
        return self.delete(*args, **kwargs)

    def get_success_url(self):
        if self.success_url:
            return self.success_url
        else:
            raise ImproperlyConfigured(
                "No URL to redirect to. Provide a success_url.")

It fetches the object to be deleted using get_object().