Convert the Django direct_to_template function to use class based view

Question

I am updating a Django project which used the direct_to_template as a function ie:

return direct_to_template(request, 'bprofile/init.html', targs)

As described a short way down this page

I have seen the SO question here and read the documentation on this page which decribe the migration of statements of the form

('^about/$', direct_to_template, {'template': 'about.html'})

to look like

('^about/$', TemplateView.as_view(template_name='about.html'))

Unfortunatelty I cannot seem to figure out how to change statements from the form that I have into a working new form.

How might one modify this code to work with the new Templateview form?

Answer 1

You shouldn't be using the generic views for this, that's not what they are for. If you want to render a template, you should use the render shortcut : it takes exactly the same arguments.

return render(request, 'bprofile/init.html', targs)

Answer 2

To use TemplateView you import TemplateView into your urls.py:

from django.views.generic.base import TemplateView

Then you just add the urlconf:

('^about/$', TemplateView.as_view(template_name='bprofile/init.html'))