app/django/middleware/locale.py
author Sverre Rabbelier <srabbelier@gmail.com>
Mon, 10 Nov 2008 00:41:01 +0000
changeset 458 e836e8914c8e
parent 323 ff1a9aa48cfd
permissions -rw-r--r--
Added support for providing a custom params dict This has been a long outstanding feature request for tlarsen, luckily it turned out to be very easy to implement with the dict.merge utility method. To have custom _rights one should instead to the required access checks before calling the view method.

"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