Django class-based views function execution order

Question

I'm converting some django views to be class based, and so far loving the flexibility.

Most of my views subclass from a parent view ClubView. Each subclassed view that needs to handle a post() method override needs to have access to the corresponding club value.

This value is in the URL, so the request variable has it. However, is there a way for me to grab this value, and fetch the corresponding club object outside of the post() method? like a pre-post() method or something. Mainly because I don't want to copy/paste club = Club.objects.get(...

A more general question -- in what order do all the methods execute in? Django's documentation on this seems lacking.

Answer 1

This DjangoProject page on Generic Display Views seems to be the most helpful, imo.

It covers both ListView and DetailView and explains in detail the methods executed in a class-based display view -- Here's an example of DetailView methods called:

setup()
dispatch()
http_method_not_allowed()
get_template_names()
get_slug_field()
get_queryset()
get_object()
get_context_object_name()
get_context_data()
get()
render_to_response()

Answer 2

dispatch is called before post - or, for that matter, get depending on the request. Overriding it should let you set extra information.

The docs lack detail - I didn't really get it until I read the source. But the source is nicely readable except for being spread across multiple files.