How to write own methods in class based views and call the methods in urls

Question

Here is my code. I was just trying to implement this but could not.I am in a stage of leaning Django

class BCD(View):
    def start(self):
        return HttpResponse("Huray Finally I called")

urls.py

urlpatterns = patterns('',
     url(r'^login1/$',BCD.as_view(),)

And even i tried

urlpatterns = patterns('',
     url(r'^login1/$',BCD.start.as_view(),)

It throws error.I have read the docs of django methods such as get and post ,head can be written they will be called directly according to the request made.But what I is need to make my own methods in class based views

Thanks in Advance

Answer 1

You need to call methods in get(), post() or whatever the HTTP request is. There isn't a start HTTP request so Django won't call that.

You can do the following in your view:

def get(self, request, *args, **kwargs):
    return self.start()

This return the result of self.start() whenever you visit your view with a HTTP GET request.