DetailView template not displaying model data

Question

I have a model which I want to display as a Detail view, I have created a list view that has a link that leads to its detailed view. I dont get any errors but the template doesn't render any of the models detail Link to DetailView

<a href="../ancillaries/{{ Ancillary.id }}" > Product </a>

Model

from django.db import models
from django.core.urlresolvers import reverse

class Ancillary(models.Model):
     product_code = models.CharField(max_length=60, null=True)
     type = models.CharField(max_length=120, null=True)
     product = models.CharField(max_length=120, null=True)
     standard = models.CharField(max_length=120,   null=True)
     measurement = models.CharField(max_length=120,  null=True)
     brand = models.CharField(max_length=120,   null=True)

     class Meta:
          verbose_name_plural = "Ancillaries"
     def get_absolute_url(self):
          return reverse('ancillaries')
     def __unicode__(self):
          return u'%s %s %s %s %s %s  %s' % (self.id, self.product_code, self.type, 
                                self.product, self.standard, 
                                self.measurement, self.brand)

View

class AncillaryDetail(DetailView):
    model = Ancillary
    def get_context_data(self, **kwargs):

        context = super(AncillaryDetail, self).get_context_data(**kwargs)

       context['ancillary_list'] = Ancillary.objects.all()
       return context

Urls

url(r'^ancillaries/(?P<pk>\d+)/', AncillaryDetail.as_view(template_name='ancillary-detail.html')),

Template

{% for ancillary_list in object_list %}
{{ Ancillary.product}}
{{ Ancillary.type }}
{{ Ancillary.brand }}
{{ Ancillary.measurement }}
{% endfor %}

Answer 1

It looks as though you've used the documentation but adapted the ListView example incorrectly. If you want to display a single model instance then the DetailView is the correct view.

As @mrkre suggested you should name your URL pattern (although I would use the singular form for the name).

url(r'^ancillaries/(?P<pk>\d+)/', AncillaryDetail.as_view(
                template_name='ancillary-detail.html'), name="ancillary_detail")

The view is then simply

class AncillaryDetail(DetailView):
    model = Ancillary

In the template ancillary-detail.html you access the model instance using the default name object.

{{ object.product}}
{{ object.type }}
{{ object.brand }}
{{ object.measurement }}