template.py

   1 from django.http import HttpResponse
   2 from django.template import RequestContext
   3 from django.template.loader import render_to_string
   4
   5 # with thanks to Peter Hunt (http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/465427)
   6 decorator_with_args = lambda decorator: lambda *args, **kwargs: lambda func: \
   7                       decorator(func, *args, **kwargs)
   8
   9 # with thanks to Robert Thomson (http://www.djangosnippets.org/snippets/459/)
  10 @decorator_with_args
  11 def template_django(func, template=None):
  12     def DJANGO_TEMPLATE(request, *args, **kwargs):
  13         res = func(request, *args, **kwargs)
  14         if not res:
  15             res = {}
  16         if type(res) == dict:
  17             try:
  18                 return HttpResponse(render_to_string(template, res, RequestContext(request)))
  19             except:
  20                 #if settings.DEBUG:
  21                 #return HttpResponse("Templating Error", status=500)
  22                 raise
  23         else:
  24             return res
  25     DJANGO_TEMPLATE.__name__ = func.__name__
  26     DJANGO_TEMPLATE.__doc__ = func.__doc__
  27     DJANGO_TEMPLATE.__dict__ = func.__dict__
  28     return DJANGO_TEMPLATE