On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 12:46 PM, Iván Raskovsky <[email protected]> wrote:
> Well.. I wasn't sure when to send this email, mostly cause I haven't
> had time to properly document everything, but Russ' talk Wither
> Django[0] seems to have done it.
>
> One of the points he mentions in what he'd like in 1.4 is "More Class
> Based Views". I've started working sporadically in an external app[1]
> before 1.3 was released.
>
> I've implemented CBV for formsets, modelformsets and inline
> formsets[2], and with some more work in them I think they could be the
> base of something that could get into core. I've based my work in both
> the actual generic CBV and how the admin treats inlines. Should open a
> ticket for this?
>
> I would appreciate help with documentation; English and documentation
> are not my forte.
>
> Apart from this we could get some other Mixins and CBV into core. Ideas?
>
> Another thing I think is reaaally important is better CBV
> documentation. Most people I've talked about CBV agrees that the
> documentation is not enough and that one has to dig into the code to
> figure out how everything works and what to override. Russ has just
> said it's very improvable. Django CBVs have been called code ravioli,
> and it doesn't help that the documentation isn't that good.
>
> Some ideas might be making a parallel tutorial using CBV, or add a
> step where you can rewrite everything as CBV. Another thing I'd like
> to see are examples where we override each CBV and different parts of
> each, with real life examples. I can help here. Which do you think
> would be the best approach?
>
> I'll be online tomorrow at #django-sprint since 8am GMT-3 more or less.
>
> I hope more people is interested in this so that we can work together.
>
> Regards,
> Iván
>
> [0] http://www.djangocon.eu/talks/26/
> [1] https://github.com/rasca/django-enhanced-cbv
> [2]
> https://github.com/rasca/django-enhanced-cbv/blob/master/enhanced_cbv/views/edit.py
>
I've just filled ticket #16256 [0] and attached the code for the
formsets derived views. If anyone can review it, I can improve the
code later. Thanks!
Iván
[0] https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/16256
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