Both questions answered very helpfully.
Thank you very much!
- Richard
On Apr 26, 12:29 pm, Darryl Ross <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Richard Atkinson wrote:
> > Hello all! Been lurking for a while, this is my first post.
>
> Welcome!
>
> > I understand that RequestContext is required in order to access
> > {{ MEDIA_URL }} in templates. I have two questions related to this.
>
> > 1. Please could somebody give an example of how to pass RequestContext
> > to a generic view from urls.py (sorry if it is in the documentation,
> > but I couldn't find it).
>
> Generic views use RequestContext, so you don't need to do anything
> special. It's only views you write yourself which you need to handle
> specially.
>
> > 2. Given that I have applications with views that I'd like not to care
> > about template issues, is there a nice way to specify using
> > RequestContext by default (maybe from settings.py), without writing
> > anything in my applications?
>
> If you find yourself doing something over and over again, in Python it
> is easy to abstract that out into a separate function. I find I want to
> use RequestContext in all my views, so instead of the following code:
>
> ----- <<< -----
> from django.shortcuts import render_to_response
> from django.template import RequestContext
>
> def my_view(request):
> # ...
> return render_to_response(template, context_vars,
> context_instance=RequestContext(request))
> ----- <<< -----
>
> I abstract out the render_to_response call into a separate function and
> use that in my own views. I create a top level folder called 'helpers'
> which is where I put various bits and pieces. Inside that I create a
> views.py file which has view helpers. My code then becomes:
>
> ----- <<< -----
> ### helpers/views.py
> from django.shortcuts import render_to_response
> from django.template import RequestContext
>
> def render_template(request, template, context_vars={}):
> return render_to_response(template, context_vars,
>
> context_instance=RequestContext(request))
>
> ### views.py
> from helpers import render_template
>
> def my_view(request)
> # ...
> return render_template(request, template, context_vars)
> ----- <<< -----
>
> Hope that gives you some ideas.
>
> Regards
> Darryl
>
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