Django passing variables to templates from class based views

Question

If I have a class based view, like this,

class SomeView (View):
    response_template=\'some_template.html\'
    var1 = 0
    var2 = 1

    def get(self, re         


        

Answer 1

Add self.var1 and self.var2 to the context in get method:

class SomeView (View):
    response_template='some_template.html'
    var1 = 0
    var2 = 1

    def get(self, request, *args, **kwargs):
        context = locals()
        context['var1'] = self.var1
        context['var2'] = self.var2
        return render_to_response(self.response_template, context, context_instance=RequestContext(request))

Note: render_to_response() is removed in Django 3.0 and above (use render() instead).

Also, I'm not sure that passing locals() as a context to the template is a good practice. I prefer to construct the data passed into the template explicitly = pass only what you really need in the template.