On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 7:32 AM, Larry Martell <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sat, May 11, 2013 at 9:08 AM, Masklinn <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> On 2013-05-11, at 17:01 , Larry Martell wrote: >> >>> On Sat, May 11, 2013 at 8:23 AM, Masklinn <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> On 2013-05-11, at 15:57 , Larry Martell wrote: >>>>> >>>>> Yes, that is what I did. This is not in my urlconf. It's in a view >>>>> function. I replaced: >>>>> >>>>> return direct_to_template(request, template) >>>>> >>>>> by: >>>>> >>>>> return TemplateView.as_view(template_name=template) >>>>> >>>>> Is that not correct? >>>> >>>> Indeed not, `TemplateView.as_view(template)` is roughly equivalent to >>>> `functools.partial(direct_to_template, template=template)`: it's only >>>> one half of the operation, which returns a callable replying to >>>> requests. >>>> >>>> You need something along the lines of >>>> `TemplateView.as_view(template)(request)` >>> >>> I appreciate all the assistance. I tried that and got: >>> >>> TypeError: as_view() takes exactly 1 argument (2 given) >>> >> >> Oh yeah, you need to pass it as the keyword argument "template_name" >> sorry about that. Basically take your code and add "(request)" at the >> end. >> >> If the current request is a GET obviously. > > What would I do for a POST? I have a button that is tied to a form > that is POSTed. In 1.4 the view returned: > > return direct_to_template(request, template) > > and that worked fine. In 1.5 I've changed it to: > > return TemplateView.as_view(template_name=template)(request) > > and I end up with a blank page on my browser. No error anywhere, just > a blank page.
Answering my own question, in case someone else is having the same issue. For the POST's I changed the calls to direct_to_template to TemplateResponse and now they are working in 1.5. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
