Chaining views

[maurycy]

Currently, it's possible to assign only one view to specified URL pattern. It would be great to allow to create more complicated chains of views.

There are two questions. First, how to extend urlpatterns to support more than one view. Second, how to pass HttpResponse between without breaking existing modules.

[deelan]

I'm curious to known some use-cases for this request.

[Adrian Holovaty]

Solve this at the view level, not at the URLconf level.

[maurycy]

I'm not sure if solving this problem on view layer is good idea.

Let's say I create shop. On *almost* every page on left I have last top sell products, on right I have recommended products and list of categories. Every action can be easily done with generic views.

Currently with this kind of challange I have to, as adrain suggested, create a lot of views playing with generic views or use tags. Both solutions are time wasteful. Of course, I can create inhereting views, but this approach hides logic and makes code harder to read.

With views chaining it would be lot simpler and, what's important, very elegant with DRY principle in practice.

[Adrian Holovaty]

maurycy: Please provide a more detailed example, and we'll be happy to show you how to accomplish this without rearchitecting the URLconf system.

[rjwittams]

This is old and ill-defined. Reopen with a better explanation including an example.