Refactor the sidebar to use Django templates
With this change the html for the sidebar is no longer generated by
Melange, instead it's delegated to Django (which is what it does
best anyway). The downside is that it is no longer possible to have
arbitrary deeply nested menu's.
"""
Decorators for views based on HTTP headers.
"""
try:
from functools import wraps
except ImportError:
from django.utils.functional import wraps # Python 2.3, 2.4 fallback.
from django.utils.decorators import decorator_from_middleware
from django.middleware.http import ConditionalGetMiddleware
from django.http import HttpResponseNotAllowed
conditional_page = decorator_from_middleware(ConditionalGetMiddleware)
def require_http_methods(request_method_list):
"""
Decorator to make a view only accept particular request methods. Usage::
@require_http_methods(["GET", "POST"])
def my_view(request):
# I can assume now that only GET or POST requests make it this far
# ...
Note that request methods should be in uppercase.
"""
def decorator(func):
def inner(request, *args, **kwargs):
if request.method not in request_method_list:
return HttpResponseNotAllowed(request_method_list)
return func(request, *args, **kwargs)
return wraps(func)(inner)
return decorator
require_GET = require_http_methods(["GET"])
require_GET.__doc__ = "Decorator to require that a view only accept the GET method."
require_POST = require_http_methods(["POST"])
require_POST.__doc__ = "Decorator to require that a view only accept the POST method."