Class Based Generic Mixins

Django-tables2 comes with two class based view mixins: SingleTableMixin and MultiTableMixin.

A single table using SingleTableMixin

SingleTableMixin makes it trivial to incorporate a table into a view or template.

The following view parameters are supported:

• table_class –- the table class to use, e.g. SimpleTable, if not specified and model is provided, a default table will be created on-the-fly.

• table_data (or get_table_data()) – the data used to populate the table

• context_table_name – the name of template variable containing the table object

• table_pagination (or get_table_pagination) – pagination options to pass to RequestConfig. Set table_pagination=False to disable pagination.

• get_table_kwargs() allows the keyword arguments passed to the Table

  constructor.

For example:

from django_tables2 import SingleTableView


class Person(models.Model):
    first_name = models.CharField(max_length=200)
    last_name = models.CharField(max_length=200)


class PersonTable(tables.Table):
    class Meta:
        model = Person


class PersonList(SingleTableView):
    model = Person
    table_class = PersonTable

The template could then be as simple as:

{% load django_tables2 %}
{% render_table table %}

Such little code is possible due to the example above taking advantage of default values and SingleTableMixin’s eagerness at finding data sources when one is not explicitly defined.

Note

You don’t have to base your view on ListView, you’re able to mix SingleTableMixin directly.

Multiple tables using MultiTableMixin

If you need more than one table in a single view you can use MultiTableMixin. It manages multiple tables for you and takes care of adding the appropriate prefixes for them. Just define a list of tables in the tables attribute:

from django_tables2 import MultiTableMixin
from django.views.generic.base import TemplateView

class PersonTablesView(MultiTableMixin, TemplateView):
    template_name = "multiTable.html"
    tables = [
        PersonTable(qs),
        PersonTable(qs, exclude=("country", ))
    ]

    table_pagination = {
        "per_page": 10
    }

In the template, you get a variable tables, which you can loop over like this:

{% load django_tables2 %}
{% for table in tables %}
    {% render_table table %}
{% endfor %}