Django call class based view in script
Call a Django view with query parameters using querydict in a python script.
A simple view we want to call from a script:
from django.http import HttpResponse
from django.utils import timezone
from django.views import View
class MyView(View):
def get(self, request):
now = timezone.now()
html = "<html><body>It is now %s.</body></html>" % now
return HttpResponse(html)The script where we call the class-based view:
from django.contrib.auth.models import User
from django.http import HttpRequest
from django.http.request import QueryDict
from myapp.views import MyView
user = User.objects.get(username='admin')
get = QueryDict('defer=0&id=1234&force')
request = HttpRequest()
request.method = 'GET'
request.user = user
request.GET = get
result = MyView.as_view()(request)
print('result:')
print(result)The output when the script is run:
result: Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8 <html><body>It is now 2018-05-15 00:00:00.000000+00:00.</body></html>
Pass additional arguments to the view.
from django.http import HttpResponse
from django.views import View
class MyBlogView(View):
def get(self, request, page_number=None):
if not page_number:
page = 1
html = "<html><body>You are on page %s.</body></html>" % page_number
return HttpResponse(html)from django.http import HttpRequest
from myapp.views import MyBlogView
request = HttpRequest()
request.method = 'GET'
page_number = 2
result = MyBlogView.as_view()(request, page_number)
print('result:')
print(result)result: Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8 <html><body>You are on page 2.</body></html>
1 comment
I was looking for this for hours,
Great post, super clear and easy!
Thanks!
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