Django: Web Development with Python

Composing class-based views

Django views are callables that take requests and return responses. In addition to the function-based views, Django provides an alternative way to define views as classes. This approach is useful when you want to create reusable modular views or combine views of the generic mixins. In this recipe, we will convert the previously shown function-based movie_list view to a class-based MovieListView view.

Getting ready

Create the models, form, and template similar to the previous recipes, Filtering object lists and Managing paginated lists.

How to do it…

1. We will need to create a URL rule in the URL configuration and add a class-based view. To include a class-based view in the URL rules, the as_view() method is used, as follows: ...