How do i pass parameters to a class based view in django?

Question

I have the following class based view;

class myClassView():
    def get(self):
        # lots of code ...
        return response

My urlconf for this looks like

(r^'call_myClassView/', myClassView.as_view())

I want to pass parameters to the urlconf the old functional way

(r'call_myClassView/(?P<id>\w+)/$',myClassView.as_view())

How do i pass parameters to my urlconf and how do i receive the parameter in my class view.

Answer 1

They are passed in the old way.

You access them via self.args and self.kwargs, for positional and keyword arguments respectively. In your case, self.kwargs['id'] would do the trick.

Edit because you've overridden get() but not preserved the signature. If you're overriding a method, always do def get(self, request, *args, **kwargs).