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Cynthia Lopez
232 PointsHow do you know what methods you can use/override in a CBV?
I love this idea of class based views but I feel like I'm super confused. How do you know what the methods are you can override in a class-based view?
It seems the template_name variable was just pulled out of nowhere. Is there documentation that lists everything like the functions you can override and all the variables you can override in a CBV? I looked through the django documentation but didnt really find what I was looking for, maybe I'm just looking in the wrong place. Thanks for any help
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Chris Freeman
Treehouse Moderator 68,441 PointsThe documentation is a bit spread out. The class based views API covers the list of class based views and mixins.
Googling from:docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.11/ref/class-based-views template_name may help narrow down the results.
Post back if you have more questions. Good Luck!!
Cynthia Lopez
232 PointsThanks!
Also I have a createView and I wanted to generate a word document with the python-docx library when a record gets created in the database. Just from a general level what do you think is the best way to go about that? Do I need to build my own mixin that I call in my createView? Or can I just create a subclass in my createView class? Sorry if these are dumb questions, I am very new to django
Chris Freeman
Treehouse Moderator 68,441 PointsIf the feature might be used in other views (or other projects! – always look to build for the future!) then a mixin seems appropriate!
No such thing as a dumb question! Best of luck!!