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

A cleaner way of doing this could be to replicate Django's Template view:

class TemplateView(TemplateResponseMixin, ContextMixin, View):
    """
    A view that renders a template.  This view will also pass into the context
    any keyword arguments passed by the url conf.
    """
    def get(self, request, *args, **kwargs):
        context = self.get_context_data(**kwargs)
        return self.render_to_response(context)

and then adding it to the get_context_data function. Or you could simply use the TemplateView which will allow you to specify a template name and then you could override the get_context_data function:

class SomeView(generic.TemplateView):
    var1 = 0
    var2 = 1 
    template_name = 'some_template.html'

    def get_context_data(self, **kwargs):
        context = super(SomeView, self).get_context_data(**kwargs)
        context.update({'var1': self.var1, 'var2': self.var2})
        return context

EDIT

Django has generic views which you can use for a variety of things, I would strongly advise you to go look at the docs for a full list of them, These generic views have functions you can override to do custom things which aren't supported by default. In your case you just wanted a template with context variables on them which means you subclass the TemplateView and supply the template_name and then finally you can override the get_context_data function to add your context data and that would be all there is to it, the second piece of code would be all you need in your case.