在django，有像php这样的控制器吗？

Question

This is a follow up question to How can I run a django management command by cron job. I'm trying to get a better understanding of the way to organize code, having come from php MVC frameworks.

In php ( lets say codeigniter ) , A URL will activate a specific controller.

The first answer to the above question states:

One option is, you can create a URL endpoint, and the corresponding view would call the management command.

Without much python/django knowledge, it just seems surprising to me that so you have to get a view involved in running an abritrary app or a controller-like piece of code where no output is needed. Is this really the only way to do this in Django? If so why is it structured this way?

Answer 1

You're confusing names with actual things. A view in Django is a piece of Python code that takes a request and returns a response - in other words, exactly what some frameworks would call a controller. What CodeIgniter would call a view, Django calls a template.