Question

I am trying to use Django generic view for CRUD.

I found two resources (1, 2), and bit confused the best and easy approach.

1. Added below to myapp/urls.py

urlpatterns = patterns('',
    url(r'^$',
        ListView.as_view(
            model= Product)),
)

then it gave an error that,

Exception Type: TemplateDoesNotExist
Exception Value:    
myapp/product_list.html

It worked when I created a file product_list.html. But, do I have to manually write the template? I am sure not.

Also, how to decorate it so that only users of a group has access to it.

Thanks.

Answer 1

The decorator can be applied inside the urlpatterns like so:

urlpatterns = patterns('',
    url(r'^$', my_decorator(ListView.as_view(model= Product))),
)

Yes you have to manually write the template.
Also the name of the template is the_model_name_list.html by default but you can also define a custom template name like so:

urlpatterns = patterns('',
    url(r'^$', my_decorator(ListView.as_view(model= Product,
                                             template_name="custom_name.html"))),
)