Expose that handy tables.paginate to the class based view, so pagination can be customized.

Christopher Keele · Christopher Keele · commit 00e19f182034 · 2012-03-16T03:02:56.000-05:00
diff --git a/django_tables2/config.py b/django_tables2/config.py
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ class RequestConfig(object):
             default ``per_page`` value).
 
     """
-    def __init__(self, request, paginate=True):
+    def __init__(self, request, paginate):
         self.request = request
         self.paginate = paginate
 
diff --git a/django_tables2/views.py b/django_tables2/views.py
@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@ class SingleTableMixin(object):
     table_class = None
     table_data = None
     context_table_name = None
+    paginate = True
 
     def get_table(self):
         """
@@ -34,7 +35,8 @@ def get_table(self):
         """
         table_class = self.get_table_class()
         table = table_class(self.get_table_data())
-        RequestConfig(self.request).configure(table)
+        paginate = self.get_paginate()
+        RequestConfig(self.request, paginate).configure(table)
         return table
 
     def get_table_class(self):
@@ -64,6 +66,20 @@ def get_table_data(self):
         raise ImproperlyConfigured(u"Table data was not specified. Define "
                                    u"%(cls)s.table_data"
                                    % {"cls": type(self).__name__})
+            
+    def get_paginate(self):
+        """
+        Returns pagination options: True for default, False for no pagination, and a dictionary for custom pagination.
+        """
+        if isinstance(self.paginate, int):
+            return bool(self.paginate)
+        else:
+            try:
+                # Duck type for dictionary-like objects
+                self.paginate.keys()
+                return self.paginate
+            except TypeError:
+                print "%(cls)s.paginate must be true, false, or a dictionary." % {"cls": type(self).__name__}
 
     def get_context_data(self, **kwargs):
         """
