On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 11:14 PM, csmith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > How can I add an attribute or variable? to the request object in > middleware, where I can use it in other views via the request object. > This is my custom middleware code so far: > > class AliasMiddleware(object): > def process_request(self, request): > assert hasattr(request, 'session'), "The Django authentication > middleware requires session middleware to be installed. Edit your > MIDDLEWARE_CLASSES setting to insert > 'django.contrib.sessions.middleware.SessionMiddleware'." > if request.POST: > request.fun = request.POST['username'] > return None
One problem might be this line: if request.POST: As indicated in the docs(1) this is not the correct way to test if a request is a POST request. You should instead do this: if request.method == "POST": Because of that, I suspect that your assignment of request.fun is never actually happening. Good luck, /alex (1) http://www.djangoproject.com/documentation/request_response/#attributes --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
