[1.6.x] Fixed inaccuracies in generic mixins documentation.

Backport of a5391db76a from master.
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Baptiste Mispelon 2014-02-09 10:50:09 +00:00
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@ -111,6 +111,12 @@ CreateView
creating objects for the example ``Author`` model would cause the
default ``template_name`` to be ``'myapp/author_create_form.html'``.
.. attribute:: object
When using ``CreateView`` you have access to ``self.object``, which is
the object being created. If the object hasn't been created yet, the
value will be ``None``.
**Example myapp/views.py**::
from django.views.generic.edit import CreateView
@ -162,6 +168,11 @@ UpdateView
updating objects for the example ``Author`` model would cause the
default ``template_name`` to be ``'myapp/author_update_form.html'``.
.. attribute:: object
When using ``UpdateView`` you have access to ``self.object``, which is
the object being updated.
**Example myapp/views.py**::
from django.views.generic.edit import UpdateView

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@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ The following mixins are used to construct Django's editing views:
.. note::
Examples of how these are combined into editing views can be found at
the documentation on ``Generic editing views``.
the documentation on :doc:`/ref/class-based-views/generic-editing`.
FormMixin
---------
@ -112,9 +112,7 @@ ModelFormMixin
mixin have access to the
:attr:`~django.views.generic.detail.SingleObjectMixin.model` and
:attr:`~django.views.generic.detail.SingleObjectMixin.queryset` attributes,
describing the type of object that the ``ModelForm`` is manipulating. The
view also provides ``self.object``, the instance being manipulated. If the
instance is being created, ``self.object`` will be ``None``.
describing the type of object that the ``ModelForm`` is manipulating.
**Mixins**
@ -218,6 +216,10 @@ ProcessFormView
The ``PUT`` action is also handled and just passes all parameters
through to :meth:`post`.
DeletionMixin
-------------
.. class:: django.views.generic.edit.DeletionMixin
Enables handling of the ``DELETE`` http action.