The documentation calls it the method flowchart:
- setup()
- dispatch()
- http_method_not_allowed()
- get_template_names()
- get_slug_field()
- get_queryset()
- get_object()
- get_context_object_name()
- get_context_data()
- get()
- render_to_response()
A question on SO.
setup(request, args, *kwargs)
- Performs key view initialization prior to dispatch().
- If overriding this method, you must call super().
dispatch(request, args, *kwargs)
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The view part of the view – the method that accepts a request argument plus arguments, and returns an HTTP response.
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The default implementation will inspect the HTTP method and attempt to delegate to a method that matches the HTTP method; a GET will be delegated to get(), a POST to post(), and so on.
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By default, a HEAD request will be delegated to get(). If you need to handle HEAD requests in a different way than GET, you can override the head() method. See Supporting other HTTP methods for an example.
get_object(queryset=None)
Returns the single object that this view will display. If queryset is provided, that queryset will be used as the source of objects; otherwise, get_queryset() will be used. get_object() looks for a pk_url_kwarg argument in the arguments to the view; if this argument is found, this method performs a primary-key based lookup using that value. If this argument is not found, it looks for a slug_url_kwarg argument, and performs a slug lookup using the slug_field.
render_to_response(context, **response_kwargs)¶
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Returns a self.response_class instance.
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If any keyword arguments are provided, they will be passed to the constructor of the response class.
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Calls get_template_names() to obtain the list of template names that will be searched looking for an existent template.
response_class¶
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The response class to be returned by render_to_response method. Default is TemplateResponse. The template and context of TemplateResponse instances can be altered later (e.g. in template response middleware).
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If you need custom template loading or custom context object instantiation, create a TemplateResponse subclass and assign it to response_class.