views.generic.dates.DateDetailView

class DateDetailView [source]

A page representing an individual object. If the object has a date value in the future, the view will throw a 404 error by default, unless you set allow_future to True.

Ancestors (MRO)

• django.views.generic.detail.SingleObjectTemplateResponseMixin
• django.views.generic.base.TemplateResponseMixin
• django.views.generic.dates.BaseDateDetailView
• django.views.generic.dates.YearMixin
• django.views.generic.dates.MonthMixin
• django.views.generic.dates.DayMixin
• django.views.generic.dates.DateMixin
• django.views.generic.detail.BaseDetailView
• django.views.generic.detail.SingleObjectMixin
• django.views.generic.base.View

Context

• Includes the single object associated with the model specified in the DateDetailView.

Notes

• Uses a default template_name_suffix of _detail.

Example myapp/urls.py:

from django.conf.urls import url
from django.views.generic.dates import DateDetailView

urlpatterns = [
    url(r'^(?P<year>[0-9]{4})/(?P<month>[-\w]+)/(?P<day>[0-9]+)/(?P<pk>[0-9]+)/$',
        DateDetailView.as_view(model=Article, date_field="pub_date"),
        name="archive_date_detail"),
]

Example myapp/article_detail.html:

<h1>{{ object.title }}</h1>