Opened 14 years ago

Closed 14 years ago

#13738 closed (wontfix)

"Writing Views" doesn't help much if you want in-depth info on writing views

Reported by: JonathanHayward Owned by: nobody
Component: Documentation Version: 1.2
Severity: Keywords: Enhancement
Cc: Triage Stage: Unreviewed
Has patch: no Needs documentation: no
Needs tests: no Patch needs improvement: no
Easy pickings: no UI/UX: no

Description

http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/topics/http/views/ as it exists now might more appropriately be called "Assigning error views" or something similar.

What it does not give is any particular detail about how to write an interesting view for a normal, i.e. 200 case. The views take a request object but do not demonstrate how to read CGI form variables from the request, and I would expect there's a lot more that can and should be said about writing views for a normal status 200 response than is said.

I don't know if the expanded documentation should be in this page or another, but any page labelled "Writing Views" page should be a detailed page covering most of the bases for how one writes a view for a normal (200) response, and workhorses like retrieving submitted CGI variables. It might also include what the present page does, but right now the "Writing Views" page isn't doing what a page with that name should do.

Jonathan, http://JonathansCorner.com/

Change History (2)

comment:1 by Matt McClanahan, 14 years ago

comment:2 by Russell Keith-Magee, 14 years ago

Resolution: wontfix
Status: newclosed

Marking wontfix because this doesn't have a specific call to action. "It should be better" is a catch all that applies to almost any documentation.

Feel free to reopen if you can provide either a specific list of topics that you think should be covered, or better still, a draft of some text that we can integrate.

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