using django.views.generic.list.ListView in urlpatterns - django

Question

I am new to Django and would greatly appreciate your help.
I have the below mentioned piece of code from an older book about Django. However, django.views.generic.list_detail has been deprecated. Can someone tell me how I could re-write this code with django.views.generic.list.ListView?
from django.conf.urls import patterns, include, url
from cmsproject.cms.models import Story
info_dict = {'queryset': Story.objects.all(), 'template_object_name': 'story'}
urlpatterns = patterns('django.views.generic.list_detail',
url(r'^(?P<slug>[-\w]+)/$', 'object_detail', info_dict, name="cms-story"),
url(r'^$', 'object_list', info_dict, name="cms-home"),
)

Answer 1

Assuming all you want to do is fetch a list of Story model objects, this is one way to write your views.py and urls.py:
In views.py:
from django.views.generic.list import ListView, DetailView
from cmsproject.cms.models import Story
class StoryListView(ListView):
model = Story
template_name = "cms/story_list.html"
class StoryDetailView(DetailView):
model = Story
template_name = "cms/story_detail.html"
template_name depends on where in the project you placed your html files. By setting model = Story, ListView will fetch Story.objects.all(). To customize, filter, add context etc., you can override any of the methods that your class based view inherits from its parent view (ex. in StoryListView you can override ListView methods).
In urls.py
from django.conf.urls import patterns, url
from cmsproject.cms.views import StoryDetailView, StoryListView
urlpatterns = patterns('',
url(r'^(?P<slug>[-\w]+)/$', StoryDetailView.as_view(), name="cms-story"),
url(r'^$', StoryListView.as_view(), name="cms-home"),
)
Think of urls.py as a mapping between the url and the View object. Defining name allows you to refer/link to other views by including name as a parameter to url template tag in the templates.
Some Extremely Useful References:
Effective Django - Class Based Views
CCBV List View
Django Project Generic Display Views
Built-in template Tags and filters -> look under url