Django - Mixing ListView and CreateView

django listview mixins
Nico picture Nico · Feb 18, 2012 · Viewed 15.1k times · Source

I'm want to create one page with a form, and every time I submit the form it adds an item to the list below the form.

I can make it work using 2 pages:

  • one page using the mixin CreateView to add items
  • one page ListView to have the list.

But I'm trying to have the form and the list on the same page. So I tried to create a class with both mixin:

class FormAndListView(ListView, CreateView):
    pass

Then I've used this class:

FormAndListView.as_view(
    queryset=PdfFile.objects.order_by('id'),
    context_object_name='all_PDF',
    success_url = 'listview',
    form_class = UploadFileForm,
    template_name='textfrompdf/index.html',)),

But when I try to load the page, I get the error: Exception Value: 'FormAndListView' object has no attribute 'object'

Traceback:
File "C:\Program Files\Python_2.7\lib\site-packages\django\core\handlers\base.py" in get_response
  111.                         response = callback(request, *callback_args, **callback_kwargs)
File "C:\Program Files\Python_2.7\lib\site-packages\django\views\generic\base.py" in view
  47.             return self.dispatch(request, *args, **kwargs)
File "C:\Program Files\Python_2.7\lib\site-packages\django\views\generic\base.py" in dispatch
  68.         return handler(request, *args, **kwargs)
File "C:\Program Files\Python_2.7\lib\site-packages\django\views\generic\list.py" in get
  122.         return self.render_to_response(context)
File "C:\Program Files\Python_2.7\lib\site-packages\django\views\generic\base.py" in render_to_response
  94.             template = self.get_template_names(),
File "C:\Program Files\Python_2.7\lib\site-packages\django\views\generic\list.py" in get_template_names
  134.             names = super(MultipleObjectTemplateResponseMixin, self).get_template_names()
File "C:\Program Files\Python_2.7\lib\site-packages\django\views\generic\detail.py" in get_template_names
  122.         if self.object and self.template_name_field:

Exception Type: AttributeError at /PDF/
Exception Value: 'FormAndListView' object has no attribute 'object'

I've no idea how to debug that. Where to start?

Answer

jondykeman picture jondykeman · Oct 14, 2012

I use a lot of views that involve a form and a list of objects. Rather than trying to mixin things I just add the queryset into the context data as below. 

class UploadFileView(CreateView):
    form_class = UploadFileForm
    success_url = 'listview'
    template_name = 'textfrompdf/index.html'

    def get_context_data(self, **kwargs):
        kwargs['object_list'] = PdfFile.objects.order_by('id')
        return super(UploadFileView, self).get_context_data(**kwargs)

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