My concern is that each view has 87 lines of duplicate code from the "GET" data to get the appended list (shown here as: data retrieved to create a list .....list.append(publications)). Anytime I make a change in one view I have to remember to make the change in the other view. Since I'm fairly new at Django, I'm thinking there must be a more efficient way to write the views? I'm very pleased with how everything is working, so now I am going back to try to clean up the code.
Thanks. On Mar 18, 6:43 pm, Malcolm Tredinnick <malc...@pointy-stick.com> wrote: > On Wed, 2009-03-18 at 11:24 -0700, Jesse wrote: > > In the view.py I have (def Bypub) that sends data to a template and > > paginates it. I have a second (def TextFile) that uses the same data > > to send to a CSV file. I would like to combine the two (def Bypub and > > def TextFile) together into def Bypub, but I'm not sure how to write > > the statements to combine two responses. > > What problem are you trying to solve here? You already have two views > where the common stuff is in a separate function (the bit you've marked > as retrieving the data in a list) and the distinct stuff is in the > separate views. That ideal. > > If the problem is that you want one URL to be able to access both > formats, then simplest is to create a third view that works out which of > the current two views to call and then passes onto them: > > def dispatch_view(request,...): > # ... work out which to call somehow... > > if output_format == 'csv': > return TextFile(request) > else: > return Bypub(request) > > Is that what you're trying to do? > > Regards, > Malcolm --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
