app/django/views/decorators/http.py
author Sverre Rabbelier <srabbelier@gmail.com>
Sun, 16 Nov 2008 23:02:31 +0000
changeset 493 6976c4d8d0ac
parent 54 03e267d67478
permissions -rw-r--r--
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."