17.7.3 Creating ArchiveIndexView
Ideally, we want to link to our new PostArchiveYear
webpage from the PostList
page. To do so, we need a list of all of the dates our Post
objects have been published. We could add the result of Post.object.dates('pub_date', 'year')
to our template context, modify post_list.html
, and call it a day. Instead (and despite the fact that this section is about adding GCBV), we will replace ListView
with ArchiveIndexView
as PostList
’s superclass.
Much like PostList
, ArchiveIndexView
shows a list of objects. Both may be paginated (a feature we have yet to use on a GCBV). However, ArchiveIndexView
is meant to be integrated with MonthArchiveView
and YearArchiveView
and expects the DateField
(or DateTimeField
) to work properly. ...
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