Hi,
I have an error that is stumping me. It may be a django or python
issue and nothing to do with webfaction butI have been working on it
for a while now and don't know where else to turn. I am fairly new to
Python and Django so it might be obvious to someone more experienced.
I have a global variable defined in a file called globvars.py:
Code:
alias = {'fake_username':''}
Then I have a view where I try and set the variable based upon
whatever the user enters as a username(I know this is a little weird
but this site is only for friends and family so I just figured they
could use one account and enter any name they want to enter with and I
would change it to generic_user which I have set up in my admin
page). Looking back it would have been easier to just implement some
easy way of registering everyone, but I already have this mostly
working. Anyway, the global gets set and then I want to save their
username they entered with to use in the blog when they decide to
comment.
Code:
from mysite.globvars import *
def my_login_view(request, template_name='registration/
standard_login.html'):
"Displays the login form and handles the login action."
if request.POST:
request.session.set_test_cookie()
if request.session.test_cookie_worked():
username = 'generic_user'
alias['fake_username'] = request.POST['username']
password = request.POST['password']
user = authenticate(username=username, password=password)
if user is not None:
login(request, user)
request.session.delete_test_cookie()
return HttpResponseRedirect('/')
else:
return render_to_response('registration/
auth_failed_login.html', context_instance=RequestContext(request))
else:
return render_to_response('registration/
cookie_failed_login.html', context_instance=RequestContext(request))
return render_to_response(template_name,
context_instance=RequestContext(request))
I am trying to pass the alias global that I captured at login into the
object_detail_wrapper via extra_context as you can see below:
Code:
from django.conf.urls.defaults import *
from mysite import views
from mysite.blog.models import Entry
blog_dict_welcome = {
'queryset': Entry.objects.all(),
'date_field': 'pub_date',
'template_name': 'welcome.html',
}
blog_dict_detail = {
'queryset': Entry.objects.all(),
'date_field': 'pub_date',
'extra_context': { 'fake_username': '' }
}
urlpatterns = patterns('',
(r'^$', views.home, blog_dict_welcome),
(r'^time/$', views.current_datetime),
(r'^time/plus/(\d{1,2})/$', views.hours_ahead),
(r'^admin/', include('django.contrib.admin.urls')),
(r'^search/$', 'mysite.books.views.search'),
(r'^contact/$', 'mysite.books.views.contact'),
#(r'^site_media/(?P<path>.*)$', 'django.views.static.serve',
{'document_root': '/home/blah/Documents/web_design/djcode/
static_media'}),
(r'^blog/(?P<year>\d{4})/(?P<month>[a-z]{3})/(?P<day>\w{1,2})/(?
P<slug>[-\w]+)/$', views.object_detail_wrapper, dict(blog_dict_detail,
slug_field='slug')),
#(r'^$', 'django.views.generic.date_based.archive_index',
blog_dict_welcome),
(r'^comments/', include('django.contrib.comments.urls.comments')),
(r'^accounts/login/$', views.my_login_view),
(r'^accounts/logout/$', views.my_logout_view),
)
These are the other functions in the views.py file:
Code:
#require login for this page
@login_required
def home(*args, **kwargs):
return archive_index(*args, **kwargs)
@login_required
def object_detail_wrapper(*args, **kwargs):
kwargs['extra_context']['fake_username'] = alias['fake_username']
return object_detail(*args, **kwargs)
So, this all works fine on the development server on my laptop using
the latest django trunk, but on webfactions server it doesn't work all
of the time. Sometimes when I access my object_detail( by the way I
also wrote my own freeform.html in templates/comments and modified it
to use the fake_username as the person_name) it shows the name and
then if I use Ctrl-R in firefox to refresh the page it shows nothing.
If I hit Ctrl-R again it puts my name back, and so on. It's like there
there are two copies of the global that I am accessing. I can't figure
this out. Any ideas? Thanks so much!
csmithmaui
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