On 12 November 2010 01:45, Ian Lewis <ianmle...@gmail.com> wrote: > 2010/11/12 Łukasz Rekucki <lreku...@gmail.com> >> >> On 12 November 2010 01:16, hcarvalhoalves <hcarvalhoal...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> > What about having an official 1.3 feedback thread at django-developers >> > list? ;) >> > >> > I'm liking the pack of small improvements coming in this release, and >> > timing is very good, well done. I must say I'm less than happy with >> > the view classes though. Is the API on it frozen already? >> >> IMHO no, but it reached a point where the only way to make it better >> was to have it released to the wild and see how people use it. I'm >> personally interested in all and any feedback on the class based >> views. There's a few thing I would like to improve myself, but just >> didn't have the time to sit down and do the work. > > I'm not sure what is meant by improve and or what you would like to improve > specifically but, > it was my impression that this conversation had been played out and that the > API was pretty much decided.
I agree. The base View class is pretty much set in stone for me. So in context of the class based views as a whole the API is frozen. But there are minor things in the generic views and mixins that django provides, that didn't work too well for me while experimenting. For example, the FormMixin assumes that only arguments to your form is "data" and "files". It's not uncommon for forms to require a request object or some other additional objects (or maybe my way of using forms is fundametally broken). To make a CreateView work with such a form, you need to needlessly reimplement the whole get_form() method. I think this should be easier. I don't want to propose any kind of revolution, but rather extend the API based on real use cases. And the reason I didn't post any proposals to change some things is that I don't feel very strong with my arguments and I don't want to waste people's time on things I'm not sure about myself. -- Łukasz Rekucki -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-us...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en.
