Re: UpdateView help

2011-06-20 Thread Andre Terra
To get keywords from your url, take a look at self.kwargs. Remember you are working with a Class now, and keeping that in mind is fundamental to not getting frustrated with the new CBVs. get_object() is a method that can be overridden by subclasses. Browse the source code for the CBVs to and try t

Re: UpdateView help

2011-06-20 Thread Tim Shaffer
Django automatically calls get_object() to get the object that needs to be updated by your form. There is a default get_object() method in the SingleObjectMixin that just gets the object based on the "model" and the "pk" that's passed in: https://code.djangoproject.com/browser/django/trunk/djan

UpdateView help

2011-06-20 Thread Nick
Help I am trying to use a generic view, UpdateView, to update a form. The documentation on most of Django is great but for class- based generic views it is sorely lacking in examples to illustrate the changes from function views, and I am confused and frustrated. A couple of my code snippets: