AttributeError: 'function' object has no attribute 'as_view'. What's wrong?

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Good afternoon! I am trying to solve this problem, but all my attempts to solve it myself have only resulted in changing def to class, and this does not help. Can you tell me what the problem is?

views.py

from django.core.mail import send_mail, BadHeaderError
from django.shortcuts import render, redirect
from django.http import HttpResponse, HttpResponseRedirect
from .models import Form

def FormListView(request):
    if request.method == 'GET':
        form = FormListView()
    else:
        form = FormListView(request.POST)
        if form.is_valid():
            name = form.cleaned_data['name']
            surname = form.cleaned_data['surname']
            email = form.cleaned_data['email']
            try:
                send_mail(name, surname, email, ['[email protected]'])
            except BadHeaderError:
                return HttpResponse('Invalid')
            return redirect('success')
    return render(request, "index.html", {'form': form})

def Success(request):
    return HttpResponse('Success!')

urls.py

from django.urls import path
from .views import FormListView

urlpatterns = [
    path('', FormListView.as_view(), name = 'home'),
    path('success/', Success.as_view(), name = 'success')
]

errat:

  File "/home/user/Portfolio/web_project/web_page/urls.py", line 5, in <module>
    path('', FormListView.as_view(), name = 'home'),
AttributeError: 'function' object has no attribute 'as_view'

there are function and classbased views, you have a function, leave the as_view() and just use FormListView. You want to write that in lower case since its a function and not a class. docs.djangoproject.com/en/3.0/topics/http/views for class based views: docs.djangoproject.com/en/3.0/topics/class-based-views/intro — hansTheFranz
– hansTheFranz, Commented Aug 8, 2020 at 9:56

MisterNox · Accepted Answer · 2020-08-08 10:01:03Z

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You are using a function instead of a class-based View. Have a look at this reference.

function-based

If you are using a function you can basically write (maybe change to lower case of the the function for convention).

path('', FormListView(), name = 'home'),

class-based

if you have for example a class-based view like:

from django.views.generic import TemplateView

class AboutView(TemplateView):
#...

Then you can use as_view() like this:

path('about/', AboutView.as_view()),

answered Aug 8, 2020 at 10:01

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alstr · Accepted Answer · 2020-08-08 12:53:16Z

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They are function rather than class based views. In class based views you type .as_view() after the name, but in function based views you just need to type FormListView without brackets.

edited Aug 8, 2020 at 12:53

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answered Aug 8, 2020 at 9:59

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