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Chapter: Build web apps with Pyramid: Applied web development
Lecture: Concept: Base controllers
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As you've seen, creating a base controller, some kind of class that all of our controllers derive from,
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allows us to centralize a lot of shared functionality. First of all, we no longer need to define a dunder init
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that grabs the request, which is a requirement for all the controllers, it also lets us set things like that cache busting utility,
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making that available to all the views and here you can see we are setting a page title that means we can go into our templates
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and say I'd like to set the title to view.page_title. And things it derive from the controller base, if they want to change the title,
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they can just set the title to something else before it gets rendered. But this way every template and as you'll see, the shared master template later,
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will be able to rely on this field being there. We also can set properties to say "is this a get request or a post request?" and simplify that,
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here you can see we even gave a set_title function that will let us define a common ending for the title of our web app
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that let us specify some little prefix like your account-my web app, things like that,