How to render a html page without view model?

Question

Is it possible to render an HTML page without having a view model in Django if a page is going to display only static HTML?

Basically, I want to delete an issue from a webpage and then show a 'successfully deleted' static HTML page after deleting.

But I got blew error, anyone could help?

NoReverseMatch at /project/1/issue/14/delete_issue/ Reverse for 'nice_delete.html' not found. 'nice_delete.html' is not a valid view function or pattern name.

view.py

def delete_issue(request,project_id,issue_id):
 if not request.user.is_staff or not request.user.is_superuser:
 raise Http404
 issue = get_object_or_404(Issue,id=issue_id)
 issue.delete()
 return redirect(reverse('project:issue_tracker:nice_delete.html'))

urls.py

 urlpatterns =[
 path('',views.list_of_issue,name='list_of_issue'),
 path('<int:issue_id>/',views.issue_detail,name='issue_detail'),
 path('<int:issue_id>/comment',views.add_comment,name='add_comment'),
 path('new_issue/',views.new_issue,name='new_issue'),
 path('<int:issue_id>/edit_issue/',views.edit_issue,name='edit_issue'),
path('<int:issue_id>/delete_issue/',views.delete_issue,name='delete_issue'),
 ]

nice_delete.html

{% extends 'base.html' %}
{% block content %}
 <p>Successfully delete this issue</p>
{% endblock %}

Answer 1

You can use TemplateView for this. Just add to your urlpattern:

from django.views.generic import TemplateView
urlpatterns =[
 path('',views.list_of_issue,name='list_of_issue'),
 path('<int:issue_id>/',views.issue_detail,name='issue_detail'),
 path('<int:issue_id>/comment',views.add_comment,name='add_comment'),
 path('new_issue/',views.new_issue,name='new_issue'),
 path('<int:issue_id>/edit_issue/',views.edit_issue,name='edit_issue'),
 path('<int:issue_id>/delete_issue/',views.delete_issue,name='delete_issue'),
 path('deleted/', TemplateView.as_view(template_name="nice_delete.html"), name='success_deletion'),
 ]

And use success_deletion url in delete_issue view for redirection:

def delete_issue(request,project_id,issue_id):
 if not request.user.is_staff or not request.user.is_superuser:
 raise Http404
 issue = get_object_or_404(Issue,id=issue_id)
 issue.delete()
 return redirect('success_deletion')

• Sue-May Xu: It occurs a new error: TemplateDoesNotExist at /project/1/issue/23/delete nice_delete.html. @neverwalkaloner
• Sue-May Xu: It works after I put nice_delete.html in the same folder as base.html. Thank you!! @neverwalkaloner