Generic views

This application provides a customized class-based view, similar to django.views.generic.ListView, that allows Ajax pagination of a list of objects (usually a queryset).

AjaxListView reference

class el_pagination.views.AjaxListView(django.views.generic.ListView)

A class based view, similar to django.views.generic.ListView, that allows Ajax pagination of a list of objects.

You can use this class based view in place of ListView in order to recreate the behaviour of the page_template decorator.

For instance, assume you have this code (taken from Django docs):

from django.conf.urls import url
from django.views.generic import ListView
from books.models import Publisher

urlpatterns = [
    url(r'^publishers/$', ListView.as_view(model=Publisher)),
]

You want to Ajax paginate publishers, so, as seen, you need to switch the template if the request is Ajax and put the page template into the context as a variable named page_template.

This is straightforward, you only need to replace the view class, e.g.:

from django.conf.urls import *
from books.models import Publisher

from el_pagination.views import AjaxListView

urlpatterns = [
    url(r'^publishers/$', AjaxListView.as_view(model=Publisher)),
]
key

the querystring key used for the current pagination (default: settings.EL_PAGINATION_PAGE_LABEL)

page_template

the template used for the paginated objects

page_template_suffix

the template suffix used for autogenerated page_template name (when not given, default=’_page’)

get_context_data(self, **kwargs)

Adds the page_template variable in the context.

If the page_template is not given as a kwarg of the as_view method then it is invented using app label, model name (obviously if the list is a queryset), self.template_name_suffix and self.page_template_suffix.

For instance, if the list is a queryset of blog.Entry, the template will be myapp/publisher_list_page.html.

get_template_names(self)

Switch the templates for Ajax requests.

get_page_template(self, **kwargs)

Only called if page_template is not given as a kwarg of self.as_view.

Generic view example

If the developer wants pagination of publishers, in views.py we have code class-based:

from django.views.generic import ListView

class EntryListView(ListView)
    model = Publisher
    template_name = "myapp/publisher_list.html"
    context_object_name = "publisher_list"

or fuction-based:

def entry_index(request, template='myapp/publisher_list.html'):
    context = {
        'publisher_list': Entry.objects.all(),
    }
    return render(request, template, context)

In myapp/publisher_list.html:

<h2>Entries:</h2>
{% for entry in publisher_list %}
    {# your code to show the entry #}
{% endfor %}

This is just a basic example. To continue exploring more AjaxListView examples, have a look at Twitter-style Pagination