Commit ee8996d8 authored by Baptiste Mispelon's avatar Baptiste Mispelon
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[1.5.x] Fixed #20612 -- Fixed incorrect wording in CBV documentation

Thanks to ndokos for the report.

Backport of b53ed5ac from master.
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@@ -196,15 +196,12 @@ provided by the generic view. For example, think of showing a list of
all the books on each publisher detail page. The
:class:`~django.views.generic.detail.DetailView` generic view provides
the publisher to the context, but how do we get additional information
in that template.

However, there is; you can subclass
:class:`~django.views.generic.detail.DetailView` and provide your own
implementation of the ``get_context_data`` method. The default
implementation of this that comes with
:class:`~django.views.generic.detail.DetailView` simply adds in the
object being displayed to the template, but you can override it to send
more::
in that template?

The answer is to subclass :class:`~django.views.generic.detail.DetailView`
and provide your own implementation of the ``get_context_data`` method.
The default implementation simply adds the object being displayed to the
template, but you can override it to send more::

    from django.views.generic import DetailView
    from books.models import Publisher, Book