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

As stated by Yaroslav Nikitenko, if you don't want to hardcode a new instance variable to the View class, you can pass extra options to view functions from urls.py like this:

url(r'^$', YourView.as_view(), {'slug': 'hello_world'}, name='page_name')

I just wanted to add how to use it from the view. You can implement one of the following methods:

# If slug is optional
def the_function(self, request, slug=None):
    # use slug here

# if slug is an optional param among others
def the_function(self, request, **kwargs):
    slug = kwargs.get("slug", None)
    other_param = kwargs.get("other_param", None)

# If slug is required
def the_function(self, request, slug):
    # use slug here