RestFul with Class Based Views best practice

[pywebdesign]

Hi,

I am trying to find/develop a best way to name and organize Views class to be consistent and flexible.

I am working on a project witch involve an model called Song. It's kind of a midi song in a database with attibutes about authors, name ... to make it simple.

Now I want web pages that permit to create a new song, edit a song, delete it or simply view it.
I also want a list page that list song by authors, by instrument (a typical search and return a list). the idea is to make the list editable via ajax. people change something on a list and it saves it to the browser when done without quitting the list. Very useful to modify many list at the same time.
There is also a page to create/upload 5 song at a time.

I was searching the best structure for my Class Based View. Right now I came up with this one:

class SongForm

def get_new_song
def post_new_song

def get_modify_song
def put_song

def get_delete_song

def delete_song

class SongListForm

def get_list_song(search infos)

class SongView

get_Song

ok that's about it. It look wrong, one big class and to very small one. I would like some pointer to some best practice to create this kind of CRUD as RESTFUL.

Thank you very much

[Marc Aymerich]

Hi, what i'd do if I want to be restful is create two views, one for listing and creating songs and another for reading, updating and deleting existing songs

class SongList

   # url /songs/

   def get: list songs

   def post: create new song

class Song

   # url /songs/<song_id>

   def get

   def put

   def patch

   def delete

I think with these two views you can cover all use-cases you've described :)

--
Marc

[Xavier Ordoquy]

Hi,

You probably want to have a look at django rest framework.

You use can will be easy with it, in particular if you use http://django-rest-framework.org/api-guide/viewsets.html#modelviewset

Regards,

Xavier.

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[pywebdesign]

Ok, thank you! I was not doing it correctly at all. http://django-rest-framework.org is amazing.

I am now using Marc's design and trying to event use CreateView and other generic view