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diff --git a/docs/topics/generic-views.txt b/docs/topics/generic-views.txt index beadc37a1d..e4094ac000 100644 --- a/docs/topics/generic-views.txt +++ b/docs/topics/generic-views.txt @@ -150,7 +150,7 @@ be using these models:: publisher = models.ForeignKey(Publisher) publication_date = models.DateField() -To build a list page of all books, we'd use a URLconf along these lines:: +To build a list page of all publishers, we'd use a URLconf along these lines:: from django.conf.urls.defaults import * from django.views.generic import list_detail @@ -176,7 +176,7 @@ version of the model's name. .. highlightlang:: html+django This template will be rendered against a context containing a variable called -``object_list`` that contains all the book objects. A very simple template +``object_list`` that contains all the publisher objects. A very simple template might look like the following:: {% extends "base.html" %} @@ -217,7 +217,7 @@ Making "friendly" template contexts You might have noticed that our sample publisher list template stores all the books in a variable named ``object_list``. While this works just fine, it isn't all that "friendly" to template authors: they have to "just know" that they're -dealing with books here. A better name for that variable would be +dealing with publishers here. A better name for that variable would be ``publisher_list``; that variable's content is pretty obvious. We can change the name of that variable easily with the ``template_object_name`` @@ -241,14 +241,14 @@ Adding extra context -------------------- Often you simply need to present some extra information beyond that provided by -the generic view. For example, think of showing a list of all the other -publishers on each publisher detail page. The ``object_detail`` generic view -provides the publisher to the context, but it seems there's no way to get a list -of *all* publishers in that template. +the generic view. For example, think of showing a list of all the books on each +publisher detail page. The ``object_detail`` generic view provides the +publisher to the context, but it seems there's no way to get additional +information in that template. But there is: all generic views take an extra optional parameter, ``extra_context``. This is a dictionary of extra objects that will be added to -the template's context. So, to provide the list of all publishers on the detail +the template's context. So, to provide the list of all books on the detail detail view, we'd use an info dict like this: .. parsed-literal:: |