Hi everyone,
First of all sorry for the newbie questions it has been a long time since I
used Django and I think I have forgotten just about everything I once knew.
I'm working on a user app for a website. I can't use the built in user model as
I need a little more flexibility and the ability to grow in the future if
required.
Basically I have three problems.
1) I need some views to be limited to the user who created the view. For
instance I have an UpdateUser view and I only want the currently logged in user
to be able to change their own user model data. So say I have the username
"djangouser" and I go to UpdateView the only row in the database that I can
change on the database server is the one with the username "djangouser". I'm
not sure what the best way to handle this problem is?
I could do it manually in a function based view without any problem but I find
CBVs to be really hard to customise when you want to do something that they
were not specifically designed to do. At that point I just end up writing a FBV
instead and doing it all myself as it is quicker than trying to figure out all
the mixins and all the methods of the class.
I must be missing something simple with CBVs. Any help would be appreciated
with this :).
2) In FBVs you get passed a variable to the function with the URL conf
variables, for instance: (path('/blah/<username>/', view, name='blah') would
result in the FBV recieving a username parameter. Where are these variables
stored when using a CBV?
3) Is it considered bad practice to use FBVs in Django? I just find them so
much easier and quicker to write. I know that CBVs result in less code
duplication but I find I constantly need the Django docs open to see what each
CBV supports and which methods it has available. Where as with FBVs I just
write the code and everything works.
Anyway, thank you for any help :).
Simon.
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