In Chapter 4, Getting Fancier: Django Unit Test Extensions, we began developing code to serve pages for the survey application. We implemented the home page view. This view generates a page that lists both active and recently closed surveys and provides links, as appropriate, to either take an active survey or display results from a closed survey. Both of these kinds of links route to the same view function, survey_detail, which further routes the request based on the state of the Survey for which details have been requested:
def survey_detail(request, pk):
survey = get_object_or_404(Survey, pk=pk)
today = datetime.date.today()
if survey.closes < today:
return display_completed_survey(request, survey)
elif survey.opens > today:
raise Http404("%s does not open until %s; it is only %s" %
(survey.title, survey.opens, today))
else:
return display_active_survey(request, survey) We did...