Example of Django Class-Based DeleteView

Question

Does anyone know of or can anyone please produce a simple example of Django\'s class-based generic DeleteView? I want to subclass DeleteView and ensure that the currently lo

Answer 1

I would propose that the best (and simplest) way to do this would be to use the UserPassesTestMixin which gives you a cleaner separation of concerns.

Example:

from django.contrib.auth.mixins import LoginRequiredMixin, UserPassesTestMixin
from django.views.generic import DeleteView


class MyDeleteView(LoginRequiredMixin, UserPassesTestMixin, DeleteView):
    def test_func(self):
        """ Only let the user access this page if they own the object being deleted"""
        return self.get_object().owner == self.request.user