[Answered ]-Django 1.8 using one view in another

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A quick example of using function-based views:

# your_app/views.py
def rock_and_feat(request):
    feats = Feat.objects.order_by('-num')[:1]
    rocks = Rockinfo.objects.order_by('-rank')[:50]
    context = RequestContext(request, {
        'feats': feats, 'rocks': rocks
    })
    return render_to_response('template.html', context)

And for urls:

# deprecated in 1.8:
# urlpatterns = patterns('',
urlpatterns = [
    # Example:
    url(r'^rock_and_feat/$', app.views.rock_and_feat, name='rock_and_feat'),
]
# )

This method is usefull, when you have a complex logic in your view. For example, you need to show aggregated data from several models.
Read about function-based views in the docs and consider this approach in the future development.

👤sobolevn

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How about something simplistic like:

views.py

class MyTemplateView(TemplateView):
    template_name = 'myapp/mytemplate.html'

    def get_context_data(self, request, **kwargs):
        context = super(MyView, self).get_context_data(request, **kwargs)
        context['widget_1'] = ModelFoo.objects.all()
        context['widget_2'] = ModelBar.objects.all()
        return context

myapp/mytemplate.html

{% if widget_1 %}
    <ul class="widget widget_1">
        {% for item in widget_1 %}
            <li>{{ item }}</li>
        {% endfor %}
    </ul>
{% endif %}

You could DRY this up even further with an ‘as_widget’ property on the model class that returns a widget template using render_to_string et cetera et cetera..

👤Hedde van der Heide

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