Python for Entrepreneurs Transcripts
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,
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some kind of class that all of our controllers derive from,
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allows us to centralize a lot of shared functionality.
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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,
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it also lets us set things like that cache busting utility,
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making that available to all the views
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and here you can see we are setting a page title
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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.
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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.
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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.
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We also can set properties to say
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"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
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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
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like your account-my web app, things like that,
