I have several models that can be converted to flatpages, but must have additional information (for example, I have a page about us, but I also have a blog).
However, I understand that there should be only one flatpages model, as the middleware returns an instance of flatpages and does not allow child models.
What should I do?
EDIT:
It seems I need to change my views. Here's the current code:
from django.contrib.flatpages.models import FlatPage
from django.template import loader, RequestContext
from django.shortcuts import get_object_or_404
from django.http import HttpResponse, HttpResponseRedirect
from django.conf import settings
from django.core.xheaders import populate_xheaders
from django.utils.safestring import mark_safe
from django.views.decorators.csrf import csrf_protect
DEFAULT_TEMPLATE = 'flatpages/default.html'
def flatpage(request, url):
"""
Public interface to the flat page view.
Models: `flatpages.flatpages`
Templates: Uses the template defined by the ``template_name`` field,
or `flatpages/default.html` if template_name is not defined.
Context:
flatpage
`flatpages.flatpages` object
"""
if not url.endswith('/') and settings.APPEND_SLASH:
return HttpResponseRedirect("%s/" % request.path)
if not url.startswith('/'):
url = "/" + url
f = get_object_or_404(FlatPage, url__exact=url, sites__id__exact=settings.SITE_ID)
return render_flatpage(request, f)
@csrf_protect
def render_flatpage(request, f):
"""
Internal interface to the flat page view.
"""
if f.registration_required and not request.user.is_authenticated():
from django.contrib.auth.views import redirect_to_login
return redirect_to_login(request.path)
if f.template_name:
t = loader.select_template((f.template_name, DEFAULT_TEMPLATE))
else:
t = loader.get_template(DEFAULT_TEMPLATE)
f.title = mark_safe(f.title)
f.content = mark_safe(f.content)
c = RequestContext(request, {
'flatpage': f,
})
response = HttpResponse(t.render(c))
populate_xheaders(request, response, FlatPage, f.id)
return response
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