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Becoming an Enterprise Django Developer

By : Michael Dinder
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Becoming an Enterprise Django Developer

By: Michael Dinder

Overview of this book

Django is a powerful framework but choosing the right add-ons that match the scale and scope of your enterprise projects can be tricky. This book will help you explore the multifarious options available for enterprise Django development. Countless organizations are already using Django and more migrating to it, unleashing the power of Python with many different packages and dependencies, including AI technologies. This practical guide will help you understand practices, blueprints, and design decisions to put Django to work the way you want it to. You’ll learn various ways in which data can be rendered onto a page and discover the power of Django for large-scale production applications. Starting with the basics of getting an enterprise project up and running, you'll get to grips with maintaining the project throughout its lifecycle while learning what the Django application lifecycle is. By the end of this book, you'll have learned how to build and deploy a Django project to the web and implement various components into the site.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
1
Part 1 – Starting a Project
5
Part 2 – Django Components
10
Part 3 – Advanced Django Components

Working with form views

A form view is just like any other view class, except that a form view class is designed to process and handle form objects and form submissions.

Django offers four main form view classes, listed here:

  • FormView
  • CreateView
  • UpdateView
  • DeleteView

These can all be found in the django.views.generic.edit library.

If we were to create a view to work with the ContactForm class that we created earlier, which does not relate to any models, we would use a simple FormView class. The other three classes can be used with forms that relate to models. They each serve a different purpose: to create, update, or delete records in a database. For example, CreateView will render a form containing blank or default values intended to create a record that does not exist yet. UpdateView uses a form that looks up an existing record, displays the values that exist for that record, and allows changes to be made. DeleteView will display to the user a prompt...