Sharing view logic in Django

Question

I've begun diving into Django again and I'm having trouble finding the parallel to some common concepts from my life in C#. While using .NET MVC I very often find myself creating a base controller which will provide a base action implementation to take care of the type of stuff I want to do on every request, like retrieving user information, getting localization values.

Where I'm finding myself confused is how to do this in Django. I am getting more familiar with the MVT concept but I can't seem to find how to solve this scenario. I've looked at class based views and the generic views yet they didn't seem to work how I expected. What am I missing? How can i create default logic that each view will be instructed to run but not have to write it in each view method?

Answer 1

If it is truly common for your whole site you use middleware. If it is only common for some views, the way to go in my opinion is to create decorators for those views. I never use class-based views because I tend to keep views simple and put more logic into models, so I have no need for classes there.