Django class-based view: How do I pass additional parameters to the as_view method?

Question

I have a custom class-based view

# myapp/views.py
from django.views.generic import *

class MyView(DetailView):
    template_name = \'detail.html\'
    model         


        

Answer 1

If you want to add an object to the context for the template you can override get_context_data and add to its context. The request is also a part of self in case you need the request.user.

def get_context_data(self, **kwargs):
        context = super(MyTemplateView, self).get_context_data(**kwargs)
        if 'slug' in self.kwargs:
            context['object'] = get_object_or_404(MyObject, slug=self.kwargs['slug'])
            context['objects'] = get_objects_by_user(self.request.user)

        return context