Commit 8c599050 authored by Russell Keith-Magee's avatar Russell Keith-Magee
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Fixed #15241 -- Updated the upgrading notes for generic views to reflect... 

Fixed #15241 -- Updated the upgrading notes for generic views to reflect recent changes in class-based views. Thanks to Jonney for the report and patch.

git-svn-id: http://code.djangoproject.com/svn/django/trunk@15479 bcc190cf-cafb-0310-a4f2-bffc1f526a37
parent 0d9c5d5a

docs/topics/generic-views-migration.txt

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@@ -128,12 +128,12 @@ as way to control the mimetype of the response. 


Class-based views don't provide a ``mimetype`` argument. Instead, you

subclass the view, overriding

:meth:`TemplateResponseMixin.get_response()` and pass in arguments for

the HttpResponse constructor. For example::

:meth:`TemplateResponseMixin.render_to_response()` and pass in arguments for

the TemplateResponse constructor. For example::



    class MyListView(ListView):

        def get_response(self, content, **kwargs):

            return super(MyListView, self).get_response(content,

        def render_to_response(self, context, **kwargs):

            return super(MyListView, self).render_to_response(context,

                            content_type='application/json', **kwargs)



``context_processors``
@@ -145,10 +145,9 @@ processors when rendering template content. 


Class-based views don't provide a ``context_processors`` argument.

Instead, you subclass the view, overriding

:meth:`TemplateResponseMixin.get_context_instance()`. For example::

:meth:`TemplateResponseMixin.render_to_response()`. For example::



    class MyListView(ListView):

        def get_context_instance(self, context):

            return RequestContext(self.request,

                                  context,

                                  processors=[custom_processor])
 
        def render_to_response(self, context, **kwargs):

            return super(MyListView, self).render_to_response(

                    RequestContext(self.request, context, processors=[custom_processor]), **kwargs)