There might be the need of implementing a callback function in the object_detail function. This shoud come after the object query, and before the template rendering, and it might be used for extra processing, such as incrementing a number_of_views counter, for example.
--- django/django/django/views/generic/date_based.py 2007-12-21 12:12:16.000000000 +0200
+++ date_based.py 2008-05-08 16:50:26.000000000 +0300
@@ -290,7 +290,7 @@
month_format='%b', day_format='%d', object_id=None, slug=None,
slug_field='slug', template_name=None, template_name_field=None,
template_loader=loader, extra_context=None, context_processors=None,
- template_object_name='object', mimetype=None, allow_future=False):
+ template_object_name='object', mimetype=None, allow_future=False, callback_function=None):
"""
Generic detail view from year/month/day/slug or year/month/day/id structure.
@@ -326,6 +326,8 @@
obj = queryset.get(**lookup_kwargs)
except ObjectDoesNotExist:
raise Http404, "No %s found for" % model._meta.verbose_name
+ if callable(callback_function):
+ callback_function(obj)
if not template_name:
template_name = "%s/%s_detail.html" % (model._meta.app_label, model._meta.object_name.lower())
if template_name_field:
