22.2.3 Profile Update

A user profile is meaningless if the user can’t control it, and so we create ProfileUpdate for users to change their profile as they see fit.

Thanks to ProfileGetObjectMixin, creating the view is very simple. We also gain the benefit of our own UpdateView GCBV, as shown in Example 22.13.

Example 22.13: Project Code

user/views.py in 83167965e8

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 26   from core.utils import UpdateView   .       ... 134   @class_login_required 135   class ProfileUpdate( 136           ProfileGetObjectMixin, UpdateView): 137       fields = ('about',) 138       model = Profile

Unlike with many of our other UpdateView subclasses, we are not setting the form_class attribute and are instead using the fields attribute. ...

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