django-http-method

Provide a workaround to use different method than GET or POST inside HTML forms in django templates. Works only with Class Based View.

Installation

From source code:

python setup.py install

From pip:

pip install django-http-method

Usage

Add django_http_method to your settings.INSTALLED_APPS

INSTALLED_APPS = (
    [...],
    django_http_method,
    [...],
)

Add the mixin to a CBV

from django.views.generic import View
from django_http_method import HttpMethodMixin

class TestView(HttpMethodMixin, View):
	
	def get(self, request):
		pass
	
	def delete(self, request):
		pass
	
	def put(self, request):
		pass
	
	[...]

In your template, load http_method and use {% http_[method] %} in your forms:

{% load http_method %}

<form action="/" method="post">
    {% csrf_token %}
    {% http_put %}
    [...]
    <button type="submit">Send a PUT request</button>
</form>


<form action="/" method="post">
    {% csrf_token %}
    {% http_patch %}
    [...]
    <button type="submit">Send a PATCH request</button>
</form>

The corresponding method of your View will now be called. For instance, if {% http_put %} was used, then TestView.put() will be called and any request parameter will be in request.PUT.

Changelog

1.2.1

• Renamed template directory to django_http_method.

1.2.0

• Dropped Django 1.X support.
• Now supports Django 3.2.

1.1.1

• Now use Github action for testing and deployment

1.1.0

• Dropped python 3.4 support
• Now support django 3.0

1.0.2

• Added pyaml to setup requirement.

1.0.1

• Now use yaml.safe_load() instead of yaml.load()
• Added python 3.7 and django 2.1 to test matrix

1.0.0

• Initial release for python3.4+ and django1.8, 1.10, 1.11 and 2.0+

0.4.0

• Will now search for parameters in body for methods PUT and PATCH
• Method will default to request.method if '_method' parameter was not found

0.3.2

• Added end slash '/' at the end of HTML input in templatetags

0.3.0

• Removing '_method' from request parameters