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9.4.3 Webpages to Delete Startup and Tag Objects

We implemented ObjectCreateMixin and ObjectUpdatedMixin. It should come as no surprise that we’re about to implement ObjectDeleteMixin (also in organizer/utils.py).

Whereas implementing ObjectCreateMixin and ObjectUpdatedMixin was straightforward, ObjectDeleteMixin requires a little bit more thought.

As shown in Example 9.80, we first need to be able to identify what kind of object we are deleting, so we start by defining a model attribute on the class. In the case of get(), we need to render a template, so we add the template_name attribute to our class too. For the post() method, we won’t be using the template, because our object has been deleted. We instead need a page to redirect to, so we ...