Ability to turn off new message in the Message framework when using create/edit/delete generic view

[anonymous]

It would be great if Django provided a parameter to disable creating
a new message when using create/update/delete generic view.

It would be enabled by default.

Something like:

def delete_object(request, model, post_delete_redirect ...., create_info_message=True)

...

if request.user.is_authenticated() and create_info_message:

request.user.message_set.create(message=gettext("The %(verbose_name)s was deleted.") % {"verbose_name": model._meta.verbose_name})

return HttpResponseRedirect(post_delete_redirect)

[James Bennett]

Since any RequestContext will, by default, clear the messages anyway, what's the use case for this?

[Jacob]

This minor change isn't worth the added argument to the generic views. You can accomplish the same thing with a wrapper around the generic view that clears messages after the view runs.