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

You can pass parameters from urls.py https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.7/topics/http/urls/#passing-extra-options-to-view-functions

This also works for generic views. Example:

url(r'^$', views.SectionView.as_view(), { 'pk': 'homepage', 'another_param':'?'}, name='main_page'),

In this case the parameters passed to the view should not necessarily be instance variables of the View class. Using this method you don't need to hardcode default page name into YourView model, but you can just pass it as a parameter from urlconf.