Django snippets: render_to

frm django.shortcuts import render_to_response

def render_to_json(*args, **kwargs):
    response = render_to_response(*args, **kwargs)
    response['mimetype'] = "text/javascript"
    response['Pragma'] = "no cache"
    response['Cache-Control'] = "no-cache, must-revalidate"

    return response

Explanation:

I think this shortcut can be util for who uses JSON many times and does not want to write same code everytime.

Setup:

Saves the snippet as myproject/utils.py or add the code to some place in your project with same ends.

Use in a view:

from myproject.utils import render_to_json

from django.contrib.admin.models import User

def json_view(request):
    admin_user = User.objects.get(username='admin')

    return render_to_json(
        'json/example.json',
        locals(),
    )

Update:

This code can be used as complement to http://www.djangosnippets.org/snippets/154/ too.

Author:: marinho
Posted:: November 16, 2007
Language:: Python
Tags:: json template
Score:: 1 (after 1 rating)

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