context, as provided by the polymorphic subsection's registered view.
Also, I'm trying to move all the website-related cruft from cms into the
example project, so that only the Page and Section models with their own
"admin" views will remain.
Each custom section can now have their own associated custom SectionView.
SectionView subclasses behave just like Django's generic views, except they
return Section objects instead of http responses. The updated PageView takes
care of compositing all rendered sections into the final response. Nice!
Oh boy! This is a big one. Two new dependencies: swapper and
django-polymorphic will now allow any project that uses cms to elegantly
extend the default Section model with custom fields and custom subclasses.
This is still a work in progress.
First, extend BasePageView and add stuff to the context that your sections
need. Second, create a URLConf entry pointing to your new class. Third,
extend the base.html nav block and change the {% url cms:page %} to its new
name.
It seems so easy in hindsight...