Comments on: Django Middleware vs. Context Processors

By: Andrew A. Sailer

Andrew A. Sailer — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 19:56:50 +0000

Thanks for this blog. I am new at python and this is a big help.

By: 汇率网

汇率网 — Thu, 21 May 2009 02:54:42 +0000

I like middleware better

By: Daniel Nyström

Daniel Nyström — Tue, 19 May 2009 08:38:22 +0000

oops, direct_to_template should have “request” as first argument:

return direct_to_template(request, “some_url_name”, {“some_var”: some_val})

Please edit.

By: Daniel Nyström

Daniel Nyström — Tue, 19 May 2009 08:32:23 +0000

I prefer using “direct_to_template” in my views which do that RequestContext automagically and unbloat the code a bit:

from django.views.generic.simple import direct_to_template

# some other view code

def my_view (request, obj_id):
obj = get_object_or_404(SomeModel, pk=int(obj_id))

# do some stuff, including:
some_function(request.user)

return direct_to_template(“some_url_name”, {“some_var”: some_val})

By: John M

John M — Tue, 19 May 2009 04:52:24 +0000

I’m still reading the docs on getting user stuff and doing authentication, but the docs are pretty clear that the user is avail in the request from a view, unless I’m not seeing what you’re really after?

http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/topics/auth/#limiting-access-to-logged-in-users-that-pass-a-test

Nice post!

John