How should template names be set dynamically using class based views?

django, django-class-based-views

Solution

You need to define get_template_names that returns list of template_names.

from django.views.generic import TemplateView

class DynamicTemplateView(TemplateView):

    def get_template_names(self):
        return ['%s.html' % self.kwargs['template']]

Problem

I've searched through the ref and topics of the class based views Django documentation(Django 1.4) but I haven't found any mentioning of this. How do I set template names dynamically using class based views? I'm looking for the class-based equivalent of the following setup: urls.py ``` from django.conf.urls.defaults import * from mysite.views import dynamic urlspatterns = patterns('', url(r'^dynamic/(?P<template>\w+)/$', dynamic),) ) ``` views.py ``` from django.shortcuts import render_to_response def dynamic(request, template): template_name = "%s.html" % template return render_to_response(template_name, {}) ```

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