2010/11/12 Łukasz Rekucki <lreku...@gmail.com>:
> On 12 November 2010 01:45, Ian Lewis <ianmle...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> 2010/11/12 Łukasz Rekucki <lreku...@gmail.com>
>>>
>>> On 12 November 2010 01:16, hcarvalhoalves <hcarvalhoal...@gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>> > What about having an official 1.3 feedback thread at django-developers
>>> > list? ;)
>>> >
>>> > I'm liking the pack of small improvements coming in this release, and
>>> > timing is very good, well done. I must say I'm less than happy with
>>> > the view classes though. Is the API on it frozen already?
>>>
>>> IMHO no, but it reached a point where the only way to make it better
>>> was to have it released to the wild and see how people use it. I'm
>>> personally interested in all and any feedback on the class based
>>> views. There's a few thing I would like to improve myself, but just
>>> didn't have the time to sit down and do the work.
>>
>> I'm not sure what is meant by improve and or what you would like to improve
>> specifically but,
>> it was my impression that this conversation had been played out and that the
>> API was pretty much decided.
>
> I agree. The base View class is pretty much set in stone for me. So in
> context of the class based views as a whole the API is frozen. But
> there are minor things in the generic views and mixins that django
> provides, that didn't work too well for me while experimenting.
>
> For example, the FormMixin assumes that only arguments to your form is
> "data" and "files". It's not uncommon for forms to require a request
> object or some other additional objects (or maybe my way of using
> forms is fundametally broken). To make a CreateView work with such a
> form, you need to needlessly reimplement the whole get_form() method.
> I think this should be easier.
If I understand your use case, something like:
class MyFormMixin(object):
def get_form_class(self)
def form_factory(self, *args, **kwargs):
return MyForm(self.request, 'frobnitz', *args, **kwargs)
return form_factory
should do the job.
Yours,
Russ Magee %-)
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