views.generic.base.ContextMixin

class django.views.generic.base.ContextMixin

Methods

get_context_data(**kwargs)

Returns a dictionary representing the template context. The keyword arguments provided will make up the returned context. Example usage:

def get_context_data(self, **kwargs):
    context = super(RandomNumberView, self).get_context_data(**kwargs)
    context['number'] = random.randrange(1, 100)
    return context

The template context of all class-based generic views include a view variable that points to the View instance.

Use alters_data where appropriate

Note that having the view instance in the template context may expose potentially hazardous methods to template authors. To prevent methods like this from being called in the template, set alters_data=True on those methods. For more information, read the documentation on rendering a template context.