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Xhens
Xhens

Reputation: 802

TypeError: as_view() takes 1 positional argument but 2 were given

I got an error and I'm not sure what it means:

TypeError at / as_view() takes 1 positional argument but 2 were given

from django.db import models
from django.contrib.auth.models import User
from django.contrib import admin

class Employee(models.Model):
    user = models.OneToOneField(User)
    full_name = models.CharField(max_length=50)
    phone_number = models.CharField(max_length=12)
    company = models.CharField(max_length=100)
    department = models.CharField(max_length=50)
    occupation = models.CharField(max_length=50)

    class Meta:
        verbose_name_plural = 'employees'

admin.site.register(Employee)

views.py

from django.views.generic import TemplateView
from web_app.models import Employee

class EmployeeTemplateView(TemplateView):
    model = Employee.objects.all()
    template_name = 'index.html'
    context_object_name = 'employee_view'

urls.py

from django.conf.urls import url, include
from web_app import routers
from django.contrib import admin
from . import views
from web_app.views import EmployeeTemplateView
admin.autodiscover()

router = routers.DefaultRouter()
router.register(r'employee', views.EmployeeTemplateView, "Employee")

urlpatterns = ['',
               url(r'^$', EmployeeTemplateView.as_view({'emp' : 'employees'})),
               ]

What am I doing wrong?

Thank you in advance!

Upvotes: 12

Views: 39904

Answers (3)

felix
felix

Reputation: 721

Make sure that you put "as_view()" as such. Not "as_view". I made such a big mistake

Upvotes: 67

Hybrid
Hybrid

Reputation: 7049

Since it looks like you are just trying to pass the employees variable from the view to the template, you can just send it this way:

views.py

from django.views.generic import ListView
from web_app.models import Employee

class EmployeeListView(ListView):
    model = Employee
    template_name = 'index.html'
    context_object_name = 'employees'

urls.py

urlpatterns = [
               url(r'^$', EmployeeListView.as_view(), name="employees"),
               ]

Then you can use the context_object_name in the template as so:

index.html

<div>{% for employee in employees %} {{ employee }} {% endfor %}</div>

Upvotes: 1

Daniel Roseman
Daniel Roseman

Reputation: 599600

as_view doesn't take positional arguments, it takes keyword arguments.

EmployeeTemplateView.as_view(emp='employees')

Upvotes: 13

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