Django passing variables to templates from class based views

Question

If I have a class based view, like this,

class SomeView (View):
    response_template=\'some_template.html\'
    var1 = 0
    var2 = 1

    def get(self, re         


        

Answer 1

There are two approaches as you can see here. The first one, you can declare a function named get_context_data like this:

def get_context_data(self, **kwargs):          
    context = super().get_context_data(**kwargs)                     
    new_context_entry = "here it goes"
    context["new_context_entry"] = new_context_entry
    return context

If you are using Django 2.x you must pass *args in get_context_data too.

The second approach is modifying extra_context variable in some function in the view:

self.extra_context["another_one"] = "here goes more"