Django Class-Based View Mixins: Part 2

filtering.py

class FilterMixin(object):
    """
    View mixin which provides filtering for ListView.
    """
    filter_url_kwarg = 'filter'
    default_filter_param = None

    def get_default_filter_param(self):
        if self.default_filter_param is None:
            raise ImproperlyConfigured(
                "'FilterMixin' requires the 'default_filter_param' attribute "
                "to be set.")
        return self.default_filter_param

    def filter_queryset(self, qs, filter_param):
        """
        Filter the queryset `qs`, given the selected `filter_param`. Default
        implementation does no filtering at all.
        """
        return qs

    def get_filter_param(self):
        return self.kwargs.get(self.filter_url_kwarg,
                               self.get_default_filter_param())

    def get_queryset(self):
        return self.filter_queryset(
            super(FilterMixin, self).get_queryset(),
            self.get_filter_param())

    def get_context_data(self, *args, **kwargs):
        context = super(FilterMixin, self).get_context_data(*args, **kwargs)
        context.update({
            'filter': self.get_filter_param(),
        })
        return context

sorting.py

class SortMixin(object):
    """
    View mixin which provides sorting for ListView.
    """
    default_sort_params = None

    def sort_queryset(self, qs, sort_by, order):
        return qs

    def get_default_sort_params(self):
        if self.default_sort_params is None:
            raise ImproperlyConfigured(
                "'SortMixin' requires the 'default_sort_params' attribute "
                "to be set.")
        return self.default_sort_params

    def get_sort_params(self):
        default_sort_by, default_order = self.get_default_sort_params()
        sort_by = self.request.GET.get('sort_by', default_sort_by)
        order = self.request.GET.get('order', default_order)
        return (sort_by, order)

    def get_queryset(self):
        return self.sort_queryset(
            super(SortMixin, self).get_queryset(),
            *self.get_sort_params())

    def get_context_data(self, *args, **kwargs):
        context = super(SortMixin, self).get_context_data(*args, **kwargs)
        sort_by, order = self.get_sort_params()
        context.update({
            'sort_by': sort_by,
            'order': order,
        })
        return context

Thank you for these snippets..they help with filtering objects. Do you have any ideas on going beyond filtering to updating the filtered objects? For example, I would like to have a ListView where you can select a bunch of objects using checkboxes and then select actions from a drop down such as 'delete' or 'approve' (similar to the django admin actions).

You need to mix ListView, UpdateView and DeleteView all together. MRO is important

class MyMegaMixView(UpdateView, DeleteView, ListView):
    pass

and you need to impletment basics required methods of those classes. Normally ListView has no form but UpdateView has... thing that way...