Django/Python: How to write Create, List, Update and Delete in a single View or a generic view?

Question

I am trying to write a view in which a post can be created and in the same page, the object_list will be displayed. And even an object can be updated and deleted.

Country Capital
India   Delhi       UPDATE DELETE
USA     Washington  UPDATE DELETE
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I would appreciate helping me in achieve this or suggesting a similar type of question.

Answer 1

What you're looking for are Mixins.

Try creating a detail view class with the following parameters:

mixins.RetrieveModelMixin, mixins.UpdateModelMixin, mixins.DestroyModelMixin, generics.GenericAPIView

For example:

class ObjectDetail(mixins.RetrieveModelMixin, mixins.UpdateModelMixin, mixins.DestroyModelMixin, generics.GenericAPIView):

    queryset = Object.objects.all()

As has proposed by Daniel, if you like DRF, ViewSets are also a decent alternative. However, they're not exactly succinct so I generally avoid them when possible.

Something like a ModelViewSet, however, is extremely clear-cut and the approach I generally choose.

Here's an example:

class ObjectViewSet(viewsets.ModelViewSet):

    queryset = Object.objects.all()

    def perform_create(self, serializer):
        serializer.save(owner=self.request.user)

Beautiful, isn't it?

For more details, see the DRF tutorial: http://www.django-rest-framework.org/tutorial/6-viewsets-and-routers/