Python Django delete current object

Question

Case I am in /notes/get/1/ where id=1 and I have created a \"Delete Note\" link in note.html. I need it to delete the current note from database and app and redirect

Answer 1

from django.shortcuts import get_object_or_404
from django.core.urlresolvers import reverse


def delete(request, id):
    note = get_object_or_404(Note, pk=id).delete()
    return HttpResponseRedirect(reverse('notes.views.notes'))

And in urls.py

url(r'^delete/(?P\d+)/$','project.app.views.delete'),

Make sure that you check the user permissions before deleting an object, you can use the @permission_required decorator https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.5/topics/auth/default/#the-permission-required-decorator. If you don't check this an user can delete all notes easily.

Usually it's a good idea to remove objects from the DB using a POST or DELETE request, instead of a GET. Imagine that google-bot crawls your site and visits notes/delete/2.