Fixes as requested by Leslie on behalf of the Legal team
Upped the copyright statement from 2008 to 2009, and link to the GAE
Terms of Service instead of any custom ToS.
Patch by: Sverre Rabbelier
from django.template import loader, RequestContext
from django.http import HttpResponse, HttpResponsePermanentRedirect, HttpResponseGone
def direct_to_template(request, template, extra_context=None, mimetype=None, **kwargs):
"""
Render a given template with any extra URL parameters in the context as
``{{ params }}``.
"""
if extra_context is None: extra_context = {}
dictionary = {'params': kwargs}
for key, value in extra_context.items():
if callable(value):
dictionary[key] = value()
else:
dictionary[key] = value
c = RequestContext(request, dictionary)
t = loader.get_template(template)
return HttpResponse(t.render(c), mimetype=mimetype)
def redirect_to(request, url, **kwargs):
"""
Redirect to a given URL.
The given url may contain dict-style string formatting, which will be
interpolated against the params in the URL. For example, to redirect from
``/foo/<id>/`` to ``/bar/<id>/``, you could use the following URLconf::
urlpatterns = patterns('',
('^foo/(?P<id>\d+)/$', 'django.views.generic.simple.redirect_to', {'url' : '/bar/%(id)s/'}),
)
If the given url is ``None``, a HttpResponseGone (410) will be issued.
"""
if url is not None:
return HttpResponsePermanentRedirect(url % kwargs)
else:
return HttpResponseGone()