[Fixed]-Django about get_context_data()

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Those 2 lines of code add the view as variable to the context if it was not already present. Most people never use this, but you could do something like this:

class SomeView(TemplateView):
    template_name = "something.html"
    title = "My list of books"

    def books(self):       #custom method
        return Book.objects.all()

And then in your template you could reference the books method and title attribute through the view variable:

<h1>{{ view.title }}</h1>
<ul>
  {% for book in view.books %}
    <li>{{ book }}</li>
  {% enfor %}
<ul>

Ah yes, and note that you don’t even need a custom get_context_data() method in this case

👤dentemm

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