Order methods by the call order

[polarise]

Class based views appear to call methods in a particular order. The link below shows a 'method flowchart', which makes it easy to understand CBV.

https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.8/ref/class-based-views/base/

Could you please consider ordering methods in CCBV.co.uk in the order they are called prior to rendering the view?

Thanks.

PK

[meshy]

Hi @polarise,

That's an interesting idea, thanks. Our original plans for the site included graphs with this information, but we never really managed to come up with something workable.

I don't know how we could get that information using our current method of code inspection. We could of course populate the DB by hand, but I can't help but feel that that would be both time consuming and error prone. Perhaps there's a way that we could automate getting the information from the django docs with intersphinx (as we do for the documentation links)?

I am a little concerned that the "method flowchart" for View only lists three of the six methods we have listed on ccbv.

[polarise]

Yes, evidently the method flowcharts are incomplete. In fact, there aren't any method flowcharts for the other more complex views (otherwise I wouldn't have made this request).

Thanks for your reply, anyway.

[mjtamlyn]

A method flowchart would assume a linear flow through the methods, which there is not. I'm not convinced there's much merit. If you can draw an example of what it should look like then great.

[meshy]

Closing because I'm not sure what action we can take on this issue. If a new idea comes up, please open a new issue.