Oh, yeah you gave me a good idea, but no, DELETE is fine. Since I wanted to
do an ajax request anyway.
Am Donnerstag, 21. März 2013 14:22:59 UTC+1 schrieb Tom Christie:
>
> Actually you'll probably want the `delete` method to be a `post` instead,
> but either way hopefully it'll give you the right idea.
>
> On Thursday, 21 March 2013 13:11:44 UTC, Tom Christie wrote:
>>
>> In cases like this, rather than rely on overriding the default behavior
>> of the DeleteView,
>> I'd recommend writing your own base class.
>>
>> It'll be more explicit and more obvious exactly what is going on...
>>
>> from django.views.generic import View
>>
>> class MarkDeletedView(View):
>> """
>> Base class for marking a model instance as deleted.
>> """
>> model = None
>> redirect_url = None
>>
>> def delete(self, request, *args, **kwargs):
>> assert self.model, "model attribute must be set"
>> assert self. redirect_url, "redirect_url attribute must be
>> set"
>>
>> object = get_object_or_404(self.model, pk=kwargs['pk'])
>> if object.date_deleted is not None:
>> raise Http404
>> now = datetime.datetime.utcnow().replace(tzinfo=utc)
>> object.date_deleted = now.strftime("%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S")
>> object.save()
>> return HttpResponseRedirect(self.redirect_url)
>>
>> Then you can create a different view for each model you need this
>> behavior on, like so...
>>
>> class CustomerDeleteView(MarkDeletedView):
>> model = Customer
>> redirect_view = reverse('customer-list')
>>
>> Hope that helps.
>>
>> Tom
>>
>> On Thursday, 21 March 2013 12:39:34 UTC, Christian Schmitt wrote:
>>
>>> Hello guys,
>>> I have a question about the django CBV DeleteView, I want to use it but
>>> not delete the element, i just want to set a delete_date so that it isn't
>>> visible anymore.
>>>
>>> With FBV my view looked like this:
>>>
>>> def delete(request, customer_id):
>>> customer = get_object_or_404(Customer, pk=customer_id)
>>> if customer.date_deleted is not None:
>>> raise Http404
>>> now = datetime.datetime.utcnow().replace(tzinfo=utc)
>>> customer.date_deleted = now.strftime("%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S")
>>> customer.save()
>>> return HttpResponseRedirect()
>>>
>>> but know I want to change all my Views with CBVs but I really don't
>>> understand how I could change the default query on DeleteView. Is there
>>> somebody who could help me with it?
>>>
>>> I mean it is way easier than to Delete items, since I have one
>>> DeleteView where I could use to Delete all items.
>>>
>>
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