Question

My IDE (PyCharm) keeps reporting: Function-based generic views have been deprecated.

I have the following statement in my import list:

from django.views.generic.list_detail import object_list

And my view looks like the following:

def category(request, id, slug=None):
    category = Category.objects.get(pk=id)

    books = Book.objects.filter(
        Q(status = 1) & Q(category=category)
    ).order_by('-id')

    s = Poet.objects.order_by('?')[:3]

    return object_list(
        request,
        template_name = 'books/categories/show.html',
        queryset = books,
        paginate_by = 99,
        extra_context = {
            'category': category,
            'suggestions': s,
            'bucket_name': config.BOOKS_BUCKET_NAME,
            }
    )

I found this in SO, but the docs seems overly complicated in this regard.

Any tips on how I can convert my code would be appreciated.

Answer 1

You could try something like this

from django.views.generic import ListView

class CategoryView(ListView):
    template_name = 'books/categories/show.html'
    paginate_by = 99

    def get_queryset(self):
        self.category = Category.objects.get(pk=self.kwargs['id'])

        books = Book.objects.filter(
           Q(status = 1) & Q(category=self.category)
        ).order_by('-id')

        self.s = Poet.objects.order_by('?')[:3]

        return books

    def get_context_data(self, **kwargs):
        context = super(CategoryView, self).get_context_data(**kwargs)
        context['category'] = self.category
        context['suggestions'] = self.s
        return context

This code is not tested, please report back if it’s working for you.
Note that the book list will be available through the context variable ‘object_list’, if you want to give it a different name you can use the ‘context_object_name’ class member:

class CategoryView(ListView):
    template_name = 'books/categories/show.html'
    context_object_name = 'books'
    ...

and in your urls.py use the class-based view’s as_view() method

url( r'your pattern', CategoryView.as_view(), name='whatever')