Routing for FormView Class

byMR

January 25, 2022

I have django_test project and defapp application in it.

I want to access form.html which MyView makes,

I am still confused about routing.

I can access localhost/defapp/ and show Hello, World

However how can I access the MyView class and show form.html?

in django_test/urls.py

from django.contrib import admin
from django.urls import path
from django.conf.urls import include,url

urlpatterns = [
    path('defapp/', include('defapp.urls')),
    url(r'^s3direct/', include('s3direct.urls')),
    path('admin/', admin.site.urls),
]

in defapp/views.py

from django.urls import path
from . import views
 
urlpatterns = [
    path('', views.index, name='index')
]

in defapp/views.py

from django.shortcuts import render

# Create your views here.
from django.views.generic import FormView
from .forms import S3DirectUploadForm

def index(request):
    return HttpResponse("Hello, world.")
class MyView(FormView):
    template_name = 'form.html'
    form_class = S3DirectUploadForm

in defapp/template/form.html

<html>
<head>
    <meta charset="utf-8">
    <title>s3direct</title>
    {{ form.media }}
</head>
<body>
    <form action="" method="post">{% csrf_token %}
        {{ form.as_p }}
    </form>
</body>
</html>

>Solution :

If you’re looking to know how to wire up a class based view in the urlconf, please checkout these docs on class based views.

The most direct way to use generic views is to create them directly in your URLconf. If you’re only changing a few attributes on a class-based view, you can pass them into the as_view() method call itself:

from django.urls import path
from django.views.generic import TemplateView

urlpatterns = [
    path('about/', TemplateView.as_view(template_name="about.html")),
]

Additionally, the docs on as_view may prove helpful.