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Python Django Class-based Views Classy Views CRUDs

Posted by Zacharia Nyakonda
Zacharia Nyakonda
7,137 Points

Article delete confirmation error

Help me please

articles/views.py 
from django.views.generic import ListView, DetailView, CreateView, UpdateView, DeleteView

from . import models


class ArticleList(ListView):
    model = models.Article


class ArticleDetail(DetailView):
    model = models.Article


class ArticleCreate(CreateView):
    fields = "title", "body", "author", "published"
    model = models.Article


class ArticleUpdate(UpdateView):
    fields = "title", "body", "author", "published"
    model = models.Article


class ArticleDelete(DeleteView):
    model = models.Article
articles/templates/articles/article_form.html 
{% block body_content %}
<form method='POST'>
  {% csrf_token %}
  {{ form.as_p }}
  <input type="submit" class="btn btn-primary" value="Save">
</form>
{% endblock %}
articles/templates/articles/article_confirm_delete.html 
{% block body_content %}
<h1> {{ articles.title }} <h1/>
<form method='POST'>
  {% csrf_token %}
  {{ form.as_p }}
  <input type="submit" class="btn btn-danger" value="Delete"> 
  <a href = "{% url 'articles:detail' %}">Cancel</a>
</form>
{% endblock %}

2 Answers

Oszkár Fehér
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Oszkár Fehér
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Oszkár Fehér
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Oszkár Fehér
Treehouse Project Reviewer

Hi Zacharia Nyakonda. You're very close, there is just a typo and a missing pk

<h1> {{ articles.title }} <h1/>    <--- the <h1/> should be </h1> and the article should be singular not plural

and from here

<a href = "{% url 'articles:detail' %}">Cancel</a>      <--- missing pk

like this

<a href = "{% url 'articles:detail' pk=article.pk %}">Cancel</a>

Also, this line you don't need {{ form.as_p }} but this doesn't affect the quiz. I hope this will help you out. Happy coding!

Zacharia Nyakonda
Zacharia Nyakonda
7,137 Points
Zacharia Nyakonda
Zacharia Nyakonda
7,137 Points

Thank you very much, I didn't see that typo coming. Missing pk figured it out later on