Django urls straight to html template

Question

Learning django & python.

Just set up a new site after doing the tutorial. Now for arguments sake say I want to add a bunch of About us, FAQ basic html pages with ve

Answer 1

If you're using the class based views because direct_to_template has been deprecated, you can create a simple wrapper that renders your own templates directly:

from django.views.generic import TemplateView
from django.template import TemplateDoesNotExist
from django.http import Http404

class StaticView(TemplateView):
    def get(self, request, page, *args, **kwargs):
        self.template_name = page
        response = super(StaticView, self).get(request, *args, **kwargs)
        try:
            return response.render()
        except TemplateDoesNotExist:
            raise Http404()

and in your router:

from myapp.static.views import StaticView

urlpatterns = patterns('',
    url(r'^(?P.+\.html)$', StaticView.as_view()),
    # ...
)