On 9 September 2010 05:46, akcom wrote:
> Is there anyway to access the request object from a generic view?
> Specifically, I'd like to access the request.user object. I tried
> doing it as follows:
> (r'^$', 'django.views.generic.simple.direct_to_template', {'template':
> 'index.html', 'extra_context' : {'request' : request}}
> hoping that the dictionary element would be evaluated within the
> context of the view where request would be valid.
That would surely be too much magic.
>Alas I was mistaken.
>
> Any help would be much appreciated!
>
Generic views use RequestContext[1] as the context instance, so all
your context processors are executed. Just add
"django.core.context_processors.request"[2] to your
TEMPLATE_CONTEXT_PROCESSORS list and you'll have the "request" object
available in all your templates
[1]:
http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/templates/api/#subclassing-context-requestcontext
[2]:
http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/templates/api/#django-core-context-processors-request
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