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Something new in django_zsutils

This post was written on 2008/08/30 at 12:37:27

The first big change in my "little collection of Django-related stuff" is a new folder structure. This was necessary because for some modules I just want to have some sort of unit-testing going on, and with the old structure this would just have been a total mess.

The actual new part of the package is the django_zsutils.utils.oopviews.ctn module which includes a sample implementation of content-type negotiation. Stuff like that is always interesting if you want to provide rendering for different types of clients while still using the same URL.

Just a small example:

@@ python @@ class MyView(ctn.AbstractCTNView): ctn_accept_binding = { 'text/html': 'html_handler', 'text/*': 'plain_handler', '/': 'plain_handler', } 

def html_handler(self, request, *args, **kwargs):
    return HttpResponse('Hello World', mimetype='text/html')
def plain_handler(self, request, *args, **kwargs):
    return HttpResponse('Hello World', mimetype='text/plain')

myview = oopviews.create_view(MyView) @@

This view would accept basically every request for text and give only for text/html provides a different output. Please note, though, that this is by no means a complete implementation of content-type negotiation. The specs also mention additional type-parameters, that are no further described, so I couldn't really add support for them. But for most cases, this implementation should suffice :-)

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