[Django]-Django Class Based view for a profile page

Profile page is nothing more than DetailView – only difference is that object is an actual user profile. If you want to display current user detail page, just override get_object method and return user from request.session (or it’s profile if this is different thing in your project).

Read https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.8/topics/class-based-views/generic-display/#built-in-class-based-generic-views and https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.8/ref/class-based-views/generic-editing/#generic-editing-views for generic views details. But for best understading of class based views read source code files in django.views.generic package.

From my own little experiment while trying to learn Django (just started)

Code snippet from base.html:

        {% if user.is_authenticated %}
            <a href="{% url 'logout' %}">{{user.username}} Logout   -- </a>
            <a href="{% url 'users:user_detail' user.pk %}">{{user.username}} Profile</a>
        {% else %}
            <a href=="{% url 'login' %}">Login</a>
        {% endif %}

From my views.py

class UserDetailView(DetailView):
    model = User   # this is imported from django.contrib.auth.models
    context_object_name = 'user_object'
    template_name = 'users / user_detail.html'

From my user_detail.html page: (for above code snippet : The user variable is injected by the django.contrib.auth.context_processors.auth context processor)

{% if user == user_object %}
    <h4>user and object are the same. Welcome {{ user_object }}</h4>
{% endif %}