CBV - CreateView

From Classy Class Based Views CreateView

View for creating a new object, with a response rendered by a template.

Attributes

Three attributes are required to get the template to render. Two we’ve seen before (queryset and template_name). The new one we haven’t see before is the fields attribute.

• fields: specifies what fields from the model or queryset will be displayed on the rendered template. You can you set fields to __all__ if you want to return all of the fields

Example

views.py

queryset = Person.objects.all()
fields = '__all__'
template_name = 'rango/person_form.html'

urls.py

path('create_view/', views.myCreateView.as_view(), name='create_view'),

\<template>.html

{% extends 'base.html' %}

    <h1>
    {% block title %}
        {{ title }}
    {% endblock %}
    </h1>


{% block content %}
    <h3>{{ type }} View</h3>
    <form action="." method="post">
    {% csrf_token %}
    <table>
    {{ form.as_p }}
    </table>
    <button type="submit">SUBMIT</button>
    </form>
{% endblock %}

Diagram

A visual representation of how CreateView is derived can be seen here:

Conclusion

A simple way to implement a form to create items for a model. We’ve completed step 1 for a basic CRUD application.