Move getMenusForScope to the end of the View class.
Adhering to our principle that we the methods we use for generating our menus can be usually found at the bottom of the View class.
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()