Make use of decorators.view for all views
This gives us a 'view' hook where we can do things that need to be
done for all views (such as catching certain exceptions, or checking
for maintenance mode).
Patch by: Sverre Rabbelier
"this is the locale selecting middleware that will look at accept headers"
from django.utils.cache import patch_vary_headers
from django.utils import translation
class LocaleMiddleware(object):
"""
This is a very simple middleware that parses a request
and decides what translation object to install in the current
thread context. This allows pages to be dynamically
translated to the language the user desires (if the language
is available, of course).
"""
def process_request(self, request):
language = translation.get_language_from_request(request)
translation.activate(language)
request.LANGUAGE_CODE = translation.get_language()
def process_response(self, request, response):
patch_vary_headers(response, ('Accept-Language',))
if 'Content-Language' not in response:
response['Content-Language'] = translation.get_language()
translation.deactivate()
return response