Help!!!... I couldn't add comment form to this project using DJANGO CBV...

Question

I have been following this lessons to last and desided to work on a full plug-able article app using class based view...

Along the line i was stucked in adding comment form to the ArticleDetail please i need assistance here...

This my codes...

-------------------articles/views.py------------------

from django.contrib.auth.mixins import LoginRequiredMixin
from django.core.urlresolvers import reverse_lazy
from django.views import generic

#from . import mixins
from .models import Article, Comment


class ArticleList(generic.CreateView, generic.ListView):
    fields = ("author", "title", "body", "published")
    model = Article
    context_object_name = 'Article'
    template_name = "articles/article_list.html"

class ArticleDetail(generic.DetailView, generic.UpdateView):
    fields = ("author", "title", "body", "published")
    model = Article
    context_object_name = 'Article'
    template_name = 'articles/article_detail.html'

class ArticleCreate(LoginRequiredMixin, generic.CreateView):
    fields = ("author", "title", "body", "published")
    model = Article

class ArticleUpdate(LoginRequiredMixin, generic.UpdateView):
    fields = ("author", "title", "body", "published")
    model = Article
    # Here we print out the name of the page as updated
    def get_page_title(self):
        obj = self.get_object()
        return "Update {}".format(obj.name)

class ArticleDelete(LoginRequiredMixin, generic.DeleteView):
    model = Article
    success_url = reverse_lazy("articles:list")
    # Here we overide the delete function to only work if a user is a superuser
    def get_queryset(self):
        if not self.request.user.is_superuser:
            return self.model.objects.filter(author=self.request.user)
        return self.model.objects.all()

---------------------artices/models.py----------------------

from django.db import models
from django.contrib.auth.models import User
from django.core.urlresolvers import reverse
from django.utils import timezone
from django.utils.text import slugify
# Create your models here.

class Article(models.Model):
    author = models.ForeignKey(User, on_delete=models.CASCADE)
    title = models.CharField(max_length=255)
    slug = models.SlugField(max_length=255)
    body = models.TextField()
    created = models.DateTimeField(default=timezone.now)
    published = models.DateTimeField(blank=True, null=True)

    def publish(self):
        self.published_date = timezone.now()
        self.save()

    def __str__(self):
        return self.title

    def get_absolute_url(self):
        return reverse("articles:detail", kwargs={"slug": self.slug})


class Comment(models.Model):
    article = models.ForeignKey(Article, related_name="comments")
    user = models.ForeignKey(User, on_delete=models.CASCADE)
    email = models.EmailField()
    body = models.TextField()
    created = models.DateTimeField(auto_now_add=True)
    approved = models.BooleanField(default=False)

    def approved(self):
        self.approved = True
        self.save()

    def __str__(self):
        return self.user

---------------------artices/admin.py----------------------

from django.contrib import admin
from .models import Article, Comment
# Register your models here.


class ArticleAdmin(admin.ModelAdmin):
    list_display = ('author', 'title', 'published')
    list_filter = ('author', 'created', 'published')
    search_field = ('title', 'body')
    prepopulated_fields = {'slug': ('title',)}

admin.site.register(Article, ArticleAdmin)


class CommentAdmin(admin.ModelAdmin):
    list_display = ('user', 'email', 'body', 'approved')

admin.site.register(Comment, CommentAdmin)

---------------------artices/urls.py----------------------

from django.conf.urls import url, include
from articles import views

urlpatterns = [
    url(r'^$', views.ArticleList.as_view(), name='list'),
    url(r'^(?P<slug>\d+)/$', views.ArticleDetail.as_view(), name='detail'),
    url(r'^create/$', views.ArticleCreate.as_view(), name='create'),
    url(r'^edit/(?P<slug>\d+)/$', views.ArticleUpdate.as_view(), name='update'),
    url(r'^delete/(?P<slug>\d+)/$', views.ArticleDelete.as_view(), name='delete'),
]

Am still working on the templates though....

I need assistance on adding comment to the article view...

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