Views¶
For all of these views we’ve tried to mimic the API of Django’s existing class-based views as closely as possible, so they should feel natural to anyone who’s already familiar with Django’s views.
FormSetView¶
This is the formset equivalent of Django’s FormView. Use it when you want to display a single (non-model) formset on a page.
A simple formset:
from extra_views import FormSetView
from foo.forms import MyForm
class MyFormSetView(FormSetView):
template_name = 'myformset.html'
form_class = MyForm
success_url = 'success/'
def get_initial(self):
# return whatever you'd normally use as the initial data for your formset.
return data
def formset_valid(self, formset):
# do stuff
return super(MyFormSetView, self).formset_valid(formset)
This view will render the template myformset.html
with a context variable
formset
representing the formset of MyForm. Once POSTed and successfully
validated, formset_valid
will be called which is where your handling logic
goes, then it redirects to success_url
.
FormSetView exposes all the parameters you’d normally be able to pass to formset_factory. Example (using the default settings):
class MyFormSetView(FormSetView):
template_name = 'myformset.html'
form_class = MyForm
success_url = 'success/'
extra = 2
max_num = None
can_order = False
can_delete = False
...
ModelFormSetView¶
ModelFormSetView makes use of Django’s modelformset_factory, using the declarative syntax used in FormSetView as well as Django’s own class-based views. So as you’d expect, the simplest usage is as follows:
from extra_views import ModelFormSetView
from foo.models import MyModel
class MyModelFormSetView(ModelFormSetView):
template_name = 'mymodelformset.html'
model = MyModel
Like FormSetView
, the formset
variable is made available in the template
context. By default this will populate the formset with all the instances of
MyModel
in the database. You can control this by overriding get_queryset
on
the class, which could filter on a URL kwarg (self.kwargs
), for example:
class MyModelFormSetView(ModelFormSetView):
template_name = 'mymodelformset.html'
model = MyModel
def get_queryset(self):
slug = self.kwargs['slug']
return super(MyModelFormSetView, self).get_queryset().filter(slug=slug)
InlineFormSetView¶
When you want to edit models related to a parent model (using a ForeignKey), you’ll want to use InlineFormSetView. An example use case would be editing user reviews related to a product:
from extra_views import InlineFormSetView
class EditProductReviewsView(InlineFormSetView):
model = Product
inline_model = Review
...
Aside from the use of model and inline_model, InlineFormSetView works more-or-less in the same way as ModelFormSetView.
GenericInlineFormSetView¶
You can also use generic relationships for your inline formsets, this makes use
of Django’s generic_inlineformset_factory
. The usage is the same, but with the
addition of ct_field
and ct_fk_field
:
from extra_views.generic import GenericInlineFormSetView
class EditProductReviewsView(GenericInlineFormSetView):
model = Product
inline_model = Review
ct_field = "content_type"
ct_fk_field = "object_id"
max_num = 1
...
CreateWithInlinesView and UpdateWithInlinesView¶
These are the most powerful views in the library, they are effectively
replacements for Django’s own CreateView
and UpdateView
. The key difference is
that they let you include any number of inline formsets (as well as the parent
model’s form), this provides functionality much like the Django Admin change
forms. The API should be fairly familiar as well. The list of the inlines will
be passed to the template as context variable inlines.
Here is a simple example that demonstrates the use of each view with both normal inline relationships and generic inlines:
from extra_views import InlineFormSet, CreateWithInlinesView, UpdateWithInlinesView
from extra_views.generic import GenericInlineFormSet
class ItemsInline(InlineFormSet):
model = Item
class TagsInline(GenericInlineFormSet):
model = Tag
class OrderCreateView(CreateWithInlinesView):
model = Order
inlines = [ItemsInline, TagsInline]
def get_success_url(self):
return self.object.get_absolute_url()
class OrderUpdateView(UpdateWithInlinesView):
model = Order
form_class = OrderForm
inlines = [ItemsInline, TagsInline]
def get_success_url(self):
return self.object.get_absolute_url()