Re: Purpose of Complex Generic Views

2008-03-28 Thread bob
Thanks for pointing that out. I just browsed to the object_list() source, and it's nice to see a lot of the pagination stuffs abstracted out, it indeed helped me to appreciate it more. :) On Mar 28, 4:50 pm, "James Bennett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 6:40 PM, bob <[EMAI

Re: Purpose of Complex Generic Views

2008-03-28 Thread James Bennett
On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 6:40 PM, bob <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > in some examples that require extra work, we have to define a wrapper > function. What's confusing me is how is this different from just > defining regular views? I can't quite notice much reduction in code, > nor improvements

Purpose of Complex Generic Views

2008-03-28 Thread bob
Hi, I'm a newbie to Django. I've just read the reference doc and Django Book chapter on generic view, but I'm still a bit confused as to when to justify the use of generic views. This is just out of curiosity, as I'm sure there are aspects I've overlooked. My understanding is that generic view