Django Design Patterns and Best Practices - Second Edition

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Django simplifies the process of creating CRUD views with a set of four generic class-based views. They can be mapped to their corresponding operations as follows:

• CreateView: This view displays a blank form to create a new model instance
• DetailView: This view shows an object's details by reading from the database
• UpdateView: This view allows you to update an object's details through a prepopulated form
• DeleteView: This view displays a confirmation page and, on approval, deletes the object from the database

Let's take a look at a simple example. We have a model that contains important dates about events of interest to everyone using our site. We need to build simple CRUD interfaces so that anyone can view and modify these ...