View function
A view function is a web request handler associated with a route that receives a request and returns an HTTP response.
Django in Action
A Django view is a function or class that receives an HTTP request and returns an HTTP response.
- How it is used
- Connects visited URLs to code that generates browser pages or API data.
- How deep it goes
- Defines function-based view inputs and outputs, then works through plain-text and ORM-backed rendering without class-based view internals.
- Examples
- Uses a plain-text credits page and a musician listing ordered by last name.
- What you can do after
- Build it from scratch as a request-taking function, register it with a URL path, and return content to a browser.
Machine Learning for Tabular Data: XGBoost, Deep Learning, and AI
A view function is a Flask request-handler function that processes a web request and returns a response or rendered page.
- How it is used
- Routes browser requests to rendered pages and prediction-processing actions in a Flask web deployment.
- How deep it goes
- Explains routing, template rendering, query parsing, type conversion, model invocation, and result display, while deferring robust bin calculation.
- Examples
- Uses home.html and show-prediction.html handlers for a property-price prediction form with categorical and continuous fields.
- What you can do after
- Apply it via Flask to render pages, collect request inputs, call a loaded Keras model, and display predictions.
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Related concepts
- Django ORMuses · Django ORM is Django's integrated object-relational mapping system for defining models and querying and persisting relational data through Python objects.
- login_requiredconfigured by · login_required is a web-framework decorator that restricts a view or route to authenticated users and redirects unauthenticated requests to a login page.
- path objectconfigured by · A Django path object represents a URL pattern and the view reference associated with that pattern.
- HTMXused by · HTMX is a JavaScript library that enables HTML attributes to initiate HTTP interactions, handle events, and update portions of a page.
- endpointincludes · An endpoint is a network-accessible address or interface through which a service exposes a resource or operation and handles requests and responses.
- renderused by · The Django render shortcut creates an HTTP response by loading a template, combining it with context data, and rendering the result.
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