Passing additional arguments to a view

[vivekdurai]

I have a view like the following

def delete(request,slug):
    objects = Article.objects.filter(user=request.user)
    msg = ""
    for d in objects:
        if d.lookup== slug:
            d.delete()
            msg = "deleted %s" % d.name
    return HttpResponse({'msg':msg,'lookup':slug}, mimetype='application/json')

def delete_update(request,slug):
    return [{'name':'delete', 'model':Article, 'params':{'pk':request.user.id}, 'data':{'lookup':'object.lookup'}}]

client.js:

$(document).bind('serverpush_delete', function(event, data) {
    alert(data.lookup);
});

What am I doing wrong? what does the delete_object_update view pass? how do I use the slug variable?

[vivekdurai]

hello? anyone there? tap tap.

[hamax]

Sorry, I missed the email.
Currently there is no nice solution to handle object deletes. _update is called on object update (notification), but can't be called on delete, because when you delete an object, you don't have it anymore to make a notification on it. I hope this makes sense :)

Secondly, I think you might be misunderstanding how the whole thing works. In the current version, you have to call the ping_notifier function somewhere (check the example https://github.com/hamax/django-serverpush/blob/master/examples/counter/demoapp/views.py) for _update function to get called at all.

And lastly about the slug. Slug in your case is the object being updated (same one you called ping_notifier on). You can pass additional params to the serializer from _update, but not to the _update from normal view.