Hello everyone,
I'm working on an e-commerce site. There is a generic version of the site
available to the open internet and customized versions available to
enterprise users. Now, when I say 'customized', I'm mostly talking about
really minor customization's. If the current user belongs to ABC
organization, change the menu display order. If she comes from XYZ company,
don't show certain options .. etc. A lot of our view code looks like this;
def view1(request):
...
...
if (request.user.company == 'ABC'):
context['ABC-option1'] = 'something'
...
context['ABC-option3'] = 'different'
...
if (request.user.company == 'XYZ'):
context['XYZ-option1'] = 'an option'
...
context['XYZ-option3'] = 'manager'
...
...
return render(request, 'templates/index.html', context)
The template isn't any better. Sure, we inherit from a base.html, but there
is a LOT of if..else..if set of statements scattered everywhere.
My instincts tell me that there has to be a better way of handling this
situation - that there has to be a better way of handling these different
scenarios than using so many if-else statements everywhere. I'm aware that
I could set something up using inheritance in my views, but .. ... well,
what I'd like is some way to handle the different scenarios OUTSIDE the
views and templates. Something like say, if I have an about-me page, for
all my users I want to be able to do,
def about_me(request):
...
return render(request, 'aboutme.html', context)
Primarily, this is about keeping the code clean. All the about-me view
function should (ideally) do is return a view. It (ideally) shouldn't have
to worry about which organization a user might belong to, in-order to show
a different set of addresses!
Any suggestions/alternatives will be appreciated.
-Abraham V.
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