create view

Date: March 18th 2016
Last updated: March 18th 2016

A view provides an http response and can call templates to be rendered. In this example I have added a profile page and a diary entry page. Neither of them do anything special. They just render a semi-static response that adds the surfer id from the http request into a string on the page.

Things to note:

• model.py stays exactly the same
• views.py has methods that return an http response
• It is the job of urls.py to call the correct method.

update urls.py (mysite)
I'm doing this so that the default http link is the index page.

urlpatterns = [
    url(r'^', include('surferprofile.urls')), #<==== change made here
    url(r'^admin/', admin.site.urls),
]

views.py

from django.http import HttpResponse


def index(request):
    return HttpResponse("Welcome to the surferprofile index page.")

def profilepage(request, surfer_id):
    response = "You're looking at the profile page for %s"
    return HttpResponse(response %surfer_id)

def creatediaryentry(request, surfer_id):
    response = "Adding diary entry for surfer # %s"
    return HttpResponse(response %surfer_id)

add to urls.py (surferprofile app)

from django.conf.urls import url

from . import views

urlpatterns = [
    url(r'^$', views.index, name='index'),
    url(r'^(?P<surfer_id>[0-9]+)/$',views.profilepage, name='profile'),
    url(r'^(?P<surfer_id>[0-9]+)/diary/$',views.creatediaryentry, name='diary'),
]