app/django/views/decorators/http.py
author Sverre Rabbelier <srabbelier@gmail.com>
Sun, 19 Apr 2009 17:42:44 +0000
changeset 2246 c29272f640b0
parent 54 03e267d67478
permissions -rw-r--r--
Tweak the 'load balancing' algorithm In order to reduce contention we randomly skipped jobs, but this caused many jobs to end up stopping early. Now instead we keep on going until we time out (also increased the chance of doing work). Patch by: Sverre Rabbelier

"""
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."