Re: making some generic views more generic

2009-01-07 Thread Gabriel Getzie
Hi Malcolm, Thanks for your input. I can certainly understand your perspective of wanting to keep the maintenance burden for Django to a minimum. Sorry about the formatting. I didn't realize it wouldn't translate so well into the mailing list post. I'm new to the open source world (that's probab

Re: making some generic views more generic

2009-01-06 Thread Malcolm Tredinnick
On Tue, 2009-01-06 at 11:01 -0800, Gabe wrote: > Hello, > > I really like the generic view feature of Django. It's been a handy > way to save a lot of work. Lately though, I've been finding myself > often wanting to display a list of objects filtered by some field. The > documentation suggests ha

Re: making some generic views more generic

2009-01-06 Thread cipher
Sorry, here is an example of item_list urlpatterns = patterns('', (r'^products/$', item_list,{ 'template_object_name' : 'product', 'queryset' : Product.objects.all() }), (r'^products/(?P\d+)/$', item_list,{

Re: making some generic views more generic

2009-01-06 Thread cipher
I also would like to request another view. def item_list(request,queryset,extra_context={}, item_template=None,template_name=None, template_object_name='object',template_content_name='items', page=None,paginate_by=None

making some generic views more generic

2009-01-06 Thread Gabe
Hello, I really like the generic view feature of Django. It's been a handy way to save a lot of work. Lately though, I've been finding myself often wanting to display a list of objects filtered by some field. The documentation suggests handling this by writing a small view that filters the object