I created a Django site to troll my cousin Barry who is a big San Diego Padres fan. Their Shortstop is a guy called Fernando Tatis Jr. and he’s really good. Like really good. He’s also young, and arrogant, and is everything an old dude like me doesn …
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Automating the deployment
We got everything set up, and now we want to automate the deployment.
Why would we want to do this you ask? Let’s say that you’ve decided that you need to set up a test version of your site (what some might call UAT) on a new server …
read moreLogging in a Django App
Per the Django Documentation you can set up
A list of all the people who get code error notifications. When DEBUG=False and AdminEmailHandler is configured in LOGGING (done by default), Django emails these people the details of exceptions raised in the request/response cycle.
In order to set this …
read moreCBV - PasswordChangeDoneView
From Classy Class Based Views
PasswordChangeDoneViewRender a template. Pass keyword arguments from the URLconf to the context.
Attributes
- template_name: Much like the
LogoutViewthe default view is the Django skin. Create your ownpassword_change_done.htmlfile to keep the user experience consistent across the site. - title: the default uses …
- template_name: Much like the
CBV - PasswordChangeView
From Classy Class Based Views
PasswordChangeViewA view for displaying a form and rendering a template response.
Attributes
- form_class: The form that will be used by the template created. Defaults to Django’s
PasswordChangeForm - success_url: If you’ve created your own custom PasswordChangeDoneView then you’ll need to update this …
- form_class: The form that will be used by the template created. Defaults to Django’s
CBV - LoginView
From Classy Class Based Views
LoginViewDisplay the login form and handle the login action.
Attributes
- authentication_form: Allows you to subclass
AuthenticationFormif needed. You would want to do this IF you need other fields besides username and password for login OR you want to implement other logic than just …
- authentication_form: Allows you to subclass
CBV - LogoutView
From Classy Class Based Views
LogoutViewLog out the user and display the 'You are logged out' message.
Attributes
- next_page: redirects the user on logout.
- redirect_field_name: The name of a GET field containing the URL to redirect to after log out. Defaults to next. Overrides the next_page URL if the …
CBV - DeleteView
From Classy Class Based Views
DeleteViewView for deleting an object retrieved with self.getobject(), with a
response rendered by a template.
Attributes
There are no new attributes, but 2 that we’ve seen are required: (1)
querysetormodel; and (2)success_urlExample
views.py
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From Classy Class Based Views
UpdateViewView for updating an object, with a response rendered by a template.
Attributes
Two attributes are required to get the template to render. We’ve seen
querysetbefore and in CreateView we sawfields. As a brief refresher- fields: specifies what fields from the …