jambonrose/djangocon2013-otwcbv

The code used for "Overcoming Troubles with Class-Based (Generic) Views," my presentation at DjangoCon 2013.

Overcoming Troubles with Class-Based (Generic) Views

This repository contains the code used in my DjangoCon 2013 presentation. All other materials may be accessed here.

NB: To ease setup of this demonstration, the Django Secret Key has not been removed from the settings.py file. This site should therefore never be used for production purposes.

Setup

$ git clone https://github.com/jambonrose/djangocon2013-otwcbv.git djotwcbv
$ cd djotwcbv
$ ./manage.py syncdb
$ ./manage.py runserver 7777

Navigate your preferred browser to 127.0.0.1:7777.

Source Code Perusal

To make navigating the code easier, the project provides several tags. Each tag corresponds to a specific moment in the presentation/article.

Any of the tags may be accessed with: git checkout tagname. For example: git checkout cbgv-url-only.

In order of appearance:

• function-views
  • The site uses functions to process requests.
• cbv
  • The site uses class-based views to process requests.
• cbgv-basic
  • The site uses class-based generic views (in bank/views.py) to process requests, removing the necessity for bank/forms.py.
• cbgv-url-only
  • The site uses class-based generic views in the URL mapping (bank/urls.py) to process requests, removing the necessity for bank/views.py (bank/forms.py still unnecessary).
• cbgv-customized
  • The site achieves the goals set forth in the presentation/article by customizing class-based generic views in bank/views.py and overriding ModelForm functionality in bank/forms.py. This last tag is equivalent to head of master.