views.generic.edit.UpdateView

class django.views.generic.edit.UpdateView

A view that displays a form for editing an existing object, redisplaying the form with validation errors (if there are any) and saving changes to the object. This uses a form automatically generated from the object’s model class (unless a form class is manually specified).

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.BaseUpdateView
• django.views.generic.edit.ModelFormMixin
• django.views.generic.edit.FormMixin
• django.views.generic.detail.SingleObjectMixin
• django.views.generic.edit.ProcessFormView
• django.views.generic.base.View

Attributes

template_name_suffix

The UpdateView page displayed to a GET request uses a template_name_suffix of '_form'. For example, changing this attribute to '_update_form' for a view updating objects for the example Author model would cause the default template_name to be 'myapp/author_update_form.html'.

object

When using UpdateView you have access to self.object, which is the object being updated.

Example myapp/views.py:

from django.views.generic.edit import UpdateView
from myapp.models import Author

class AuthorUpdate(UpdateView):
    model = Author
    fields = ['name']
    template_name_suffix = '_update_form'

Example myapp/author_update_form.html:

<form action="" method="post">{% csrf_token %}
    {{ form.as_p }}
    <input type="submit" value="Update" />
</form>