Re: override render_to_response

2009-03-17 Thread matehat
I think the closest you could get to a painless implementation of what you need, for existing apps, could be to create a method named something like "render_to_json_response", that behave the way you want and have the appropriate "views" modules in each app import it as "render_to_response" (indee

Re: override render_to_response

2009-03-16 Thread Malcolm Tredinnick
On Mon, 2009-03-16 at 18:34 -0700, Preston Timmons wrote: > I am wondering if render_to_response is really the proper function you > are looking for. > > For instance, here is a simple view that returns json using > HttpResponse without need of a template: He was wanting to hijack the output fro

Re: override render_to_response

2009-03-16 Thread Preston Timmons
I am wondering if render_to_response is really the proper function you are looking for. For instance, here is a simple view that returns json using HttpResponse without need of a template: import simplejson from django.http import HttpResponse def output_json(request): data = [ dict(

Re: override render_to_response

2009-03-16 Thread Malcolm Tredinnick
On Mon, 2009-03-16 at 20:05 -0400, Malinka Rellikwodahs wrote: [...] > Unless I'm mistaken it should be fairly simple in this case to create > your own set of templates for each of the django apps you're using and > then have them output the data you need as json text instead of as > html Ooh ...

Re: override render_to_response

2009-03-16 Thread Malinka Rellikwodahs
ext dict > as JSON instead > of rendering the html template. > > Is it possible to override render_to_response so all the apps using it will > respond with JSON without > actually touching the apps code? I don't want to create a middleware that > will modify the response

Re: override render_to_response

2009-03-16 Thread Malcolm Tredinnick
> context dict as JSON instead > of rendering the html template. > > Is it possible to override render_to_response so all the apps using it > will respond with JSON without > actually touching the apps code? Not really, no. Monkey-patching like that is gene

override render_to_response

2009-03-16 Thread a b
Hi, I'm building a one page app with no page refresh. All the content is loaded as JSON dynamically and the UI is built using javascript. I'm using external django apps and I need them to send back the context dict as JSON instead of rendering the html template. Is it possible t