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Mastering Django: Core

By : Nigel George
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Mastering Django: Core

By: Nigel George

Overview of this book

Mastering Django: Core is a completely revised and updated version of the original Django Book, written by Adrian Holovaty and Jacob Kaplan-Moss - the creators of Django. The main goal of this book is to make you a Django expert. By reading this book, you’ll learn the skills needed to develop powerful websites quickly, with code that is clean and easy to maintain. This book is also a programmer’s manual that provides complete coverage of the current Long Term Support (LTS) version of Django. For developers creating applications for commercial and business critical deployments, Mastering Django: Core provides a complete, up-to-date resource for Django 1.8LTS with a stable code-base, security fixes and support out to 2018.
Table of Contents (33 chapters)
Mastering Django: Core
Credits
About the Author
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Preface
Free Chapter
1
Introduction to Django and Getting Started

Performing extra work


The last common pattern we'll look at involves doing some extra work before or after calling the generic view. Imagine we had a last_accessed field on our Author model that we were using to keep track of the last time anybody looked at that author:

# models.py 
from django.db import models 
 
class Author(models.Model): 
    salutation = models.CharField(max_length=10) 
    name = models.CharField(max_length=200) 
    email = models.EmailField() 
    headshot = models.ImageField(upload_to='author_headshots') 
    last_accessed = models.DateTimeField() 

The generic DetailView class, of course, wouldn't know anything about this field, but once again we could easily write a custom view to keep that field updated. First, we'd need to add an author detail bit in the URLconf to point to a custom view:

from django.conf.urls import url 
from books.views import AuthorDetailView 
 
urlpatterns = [ 
    #... 
...