Issues

This decorator makes views even easier:

Code:

def page(template=None, context=None, **decorator_args):
 def _wrapper(fn):
 def _innerWrapper(request, *args, **kw):
 context_dict = decorator_args.copy()
 g = fn(request, *args, **kw)
 if not hasattr(g, 'next'): #Is this a generator? Otherwise make her a tuple!
 g = (g,)
 for i in g:
 if isinstance(i, httpwrappers.HttpResponse):
 return i
 if type(i) == type(()):
 context_dict[i[0]] = i[1]
 else:
 context_dict.update(i)
 template_name = context_dict.get("template", template)
 context_instance = context_dict.get("context", context)
 return render_to_response(template_name, context_dict, context_instance)
 
 return _innerWrapper
 return _wrapper

Usage:

@page("polls/index") #The decorator function takes the template to be used.
def index(request):
 latest_poll_list = polls.get_list(order_by=['-pub_date'], limit=5)
 yield {'latest_poll_list': latest_poll_list}
 yield {'title': 'Latest Poll Listing'} # We can yield at multiple places in the function.

Or one could yield the locals():

@page("polls/index", title='Latest Poll Listing') #Extra keyword arguments are sent in the context.
def index(request):
 latest_poll_list = polls.get_list(order_by=['-pub_date'], limit=5)
 yield locals() #This yeilds all the local variables, which is 'latest_poll_list', and 'request'

You can set a template mid-stream with:

@page() #We don't say what template is needed yet.
def index(request):
 latest_poll_list = polls.get_list(order_by=['-pub_date'], limit=5)
 if (latest_poll_list):
 template = 'polls/index'
 else:
 template = 'polls/nopolls' # We could also send 'context' which changes what context we use.
 yield locals()

You can yield a response to have it immediately returned:

@page('polls/index')
def index(request):
 latest_poll_list = polls.get_list(order_by=['-pub_date'], limit=5)
 if (not latest_poll_list):
 yield httpwrappers.HttpResponseRedirect("/home/") #Since we don't have any latest polls, redirect to home.
 return #Don't yield anything else, we're done here.
 yield locals()