Annotated objects

Fastview uses annotated objects to provide additional functionality and syntactic sugar when building templates.

An AnnotatedObject is accessed in the template as annotated_object, or in a list view as objects in the list annotated_objects.

It has the following attributes:

• original - reference to the original object

• labels - list of field labels

• values - list of field values (same order as labels)

• items - list of (label, value) pairs

When used in a viewgroup, it also has object-based permission checks:

• can_<action> - returns True or False based on user permissions.

• get_<action>_url - returns the URL to the action.

For example:

{% if annotated_object.can_delete %}
  <a href="{{ annotated_object.get_delete_url }}">Delete</a>
{% endif %}

Note: in a future release, the object and object_list context values will be replaced by the annotated objects, and the annotated_object context values will be deprecated then removed.