views.generic.edit.DeleteView

class django.views.generic.edit.DeleteView

A view that displays a confirmation page and deletes an existing object. The given object will only be deleted if the request method is POST. If this view is fetched via GET, it will display a confirmation page that should contain a form that POSTs to the same URL.

Ancestors (MRO)

This view inherits methods and attributes from the following views:

• django.views.generic.detail.SingleObjectTemplateResponseMixin
• django.views.generic.base.TemplateResponseMixin
• django.views.generic.edit.BaseDeleteView
• django.views.generic.edit.DeletionMixin
• django.views.generic.detail.BaseDetailView
• django.views.generic.detail.SingleObjectMixin
• django.views.generic.base.View

Attributes

template_name_suffix

The DeleteView page displayed to a GET request uses a template_name_suffix of '_confirm_delete'. For example, changing this attribute to '_check_delete' for a view deleting objects for the example Author model would cause the default template_name to be 'myapp/author_check_delete.html'.

Example myapp/views.py:

from django.views.generic.edit import DeleteView
from django.urls import reverse_lazy
from myapp.models import Author

class AuthorDelete(DeleteView):
    model = Author
    success_url = reverse_lazy('author-list')

Example myapp/author_confirm_delete.html:

<form action="" method="post">{% csrf_token %}
    <p>Are you sure you want to delete "{{ object }}"?</p>
    <input type="submit" value="Confirm" />
</form>