One of the most common thing that you will do in a web application is to pull data from the database and show them to the user, as a list or table. Using django's object_list generic view, you can do this with minimum code.
An example of using the generic view
#!/usr/bin/env python
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
# import the generic views
from django.views.generic.list_detail import object_list
from models import MyObjects
def view_list(request):
template_path = "mytemplate.html"
response_dict = {}
myobjects = MyObject.objects.filter(name__istartswith="Mike")
return object_list(request, queryset=myobjects,
template_name=template_path,
paginate_by=3,
page=page,
template_object_name="templateobject",
extra_context=response_dict)
The above view will return to your template a list called "templateobject_list" which contains models of myobjects.
For more details on the parameters for object_list(), check the Django documentation here: Django object_list manual
