Let's say I have two models: Book and Page:
class Book(models.Model):
pass
class Page(models.Model):
book = models.ForeignKey(Book)
I need to delete the page and redirect it to the specific book to which the page belonged. To do this, I create a class-based view to delete the page:
class PageDeleteView(DeleteView):
model = Page
def get_success_url(self, **kwargs):
return reverse_lazy('book_detail', self.book.pk)
The problem is that since the object is deleted before calling get_success_url, this method fails, and I get 404 error.
How can i do this?
Update:
Following @DrTyrsa's idea, I achieved this by overriding the delete method, so the class will look like this:
reverse_lazy = lambda name=None, *args : lazy(reverse, str)(name, args=args)
class PageDeleteView(DeleteView):
model = Page
def get_success_url(self, **kwargs):
return reverse_lazy('book_detail', self.book.pk)
def delete(self, request, *args, **kwargs):
self.book_pk = self.get_object().book.pk
return super(PageDeleteView, self).delete(request, *args, **kwargs)
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