Django中的复合通用视图？

Question

I'm working on my first Django project. I need to display a compound page containing both sides of a one-to-many database relationship. Trying to be as Django-y as possible, I considered (class based) generic views. Since none of the built-in generic views had anything similar, I hacked together a compound generic view using SingleObjectMixin and MultipleObjectMixin , which also meant I had to extend the base View class.

Looking back, this seems like a lot of work for something that (in my opinion) should be quite trivial, and I assumed that I took the wrong path to solve that problem. So I'm turning to the SO community for help:

• What would be the correct solution for this problem?
• How would you go about solving this?

Thanks!

Answer 1

I would simply use DetailView (which uses SingleObjectMixin ), and access the related object through its access attribute on the instance in the template:

<h2>Main Object</h2>
<p>{{ object.some_field }}</p>
<h2>Related Object</h2>
{% with related=object.related_whatever %}
    <p>{{ related.some_field }}</p>
    <p>{{ related.other_fied }}</p>
{% endwith %}