Understanding function-based views
As the name implies, function-based views are implemented as Python functions. To understand how they work, consider the following snippet, which shows a simple view function named home_page:
from django.http import HttpResponse def home_page(request): message = "<html><h1>Welcome to my Website</h1></html>" return HttpResponse(message)
The view function defined here, named home_page, takes a request object as an argument and returns an HttpResponse object with a Welcome to my Website message. The advantage of using function-based views is that, since they are implemented as simple Python functions, they are easier to learn and also easily readable for other programmers. The major disadvantage of function-based views is that the code cannot be reused and made as concisely as class-based views for generic use cases. The next section is a brief introduction to class...
