django-crequest 2014.9.19

Middleware to make current request always available.

Contents

• Overview

• Installing

• Supported Python versions

• How to use

• Some info for some folks

Overview

• crequest Take care of current request is silent way.

• crequest will bring you current request object of your django application from anywhere in your code.

Installing

django-crequest is available at http://pypi.python.org/pypi/django-crequest So it can be installed it by pip:

$ python pip install django-crequest

Or you can grab the latest version tarball and

$ python setup.py install

To enable django-crequest in your project

• Add crequest to INSTALLED_APPS in your settings.py

• Add crequest.middleware.CrequestMiddleware to MIDDLEWARE_CLASSES after the authentication and session middleware.

Supported Python versions

django-crequest currently can be run on multiple python versions:

• Python 2 (2.7)

• Python 3 (3.2, 3.3, 3.4)

• PyPy

How to use

First import the crequest’s middleware:

from crequest.middleware import CrequestMiddleware

Get the current request ;):

current_request = CrequestMiddleware.get_request()

Done.

Some info for some folks

Set the current request in UnKnown situations:

CrequestMiddleware.set_request(request)

Return iam_request if there is no current request:

CrequestMiddleware.get_request(iam_request)

And finally delete:

CrequestMiddleware.del_request()

The middleware automatically sets/deletes the current request for HTTP requests. For other uses (management commands, scripts), you will need to do this yourself.