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View and StatefulView classes

This snippet provides two view classes. The two reason I wanted to write this are, 1) Not have to import all the boilerplate code for each view and 2) so I could have the same URL handle loading a persons profile, or handle an OpenID login request without having to write two separate views. (Yes I know it isnt to hard to write my view, check the header and pass it off to the proper handler view, but I think it looks better code wise to have the handler methods all in one class) The first one is just for normal views conveniently called *View*. The *View* class that lets you do at least 90% of what you can do in a normal view function, but without having to import all the normal boilerplate code first since this class wraps methods around most if not all the *HttpResponse* types. The second class *StatefulView* maintains its state across page loads This is especialy useful for ajax type calls where you wish to maintain some form of state while the user is doing something but do not wish to make DB calls and do not wish to polute the session with trivial things **Note:** On my system it maintains state across browsers and computers as it is not tied to the session, BUT for this to happen all requests must be handled by the same proccess. So requests going to a differing process with not have the state maintained.

  • views
  • class
  • stateful
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direct to template from a subdir

I needed a way to quickly get a direction of html pages templated such that another person could drop new templates in to a subdirectory and without modifying urls.py or views.py get them up and being displayed. Now, the direct_to_template view provided django.views.generic.simple can sort of do this with a urlpattern like: `url(r'^(?P<template>.*\.html)$', direct_to_template)` But that means your templates, no matter what level in the url hierarchy they are reached at, have to be defined at the root of a template directory. I wanted them retrieved from a specific subdirectory instead so I could provide a little wall for them. Hence this snippet. To use you would have url pattern that looked like: `url(r'^foo/(?P<template>.*\.html)$', direct_to_template, {'subdir' : 'subdir/'}),` Which will template any url that matches <parent url>/foo/bar.html for any 'bar'. The problem is if this is a sub-url pattern match this is going to look for the template "bar.html" when we may actually want it to get the template "<parent url>/foo/bar.html"

  • templating
  • wildcard
  • subdir
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RangeField and RangeWidget

These field and widget are util for to those fields where you can put a star and end values. It supports most of field types and widgets (tested with IntegerField, CharField and DateField / TextInput and a customized DateInput). **Example of use:** class FormSearch(forms.Form): q = forms.CharField(max_length=50, label=_('Search for')) price_range = RangeField(forms.IntegerField, required=False) **Example of use (with forced widget):** class FormSearch(forms.Form): q = forms.CharField(max_length=50, label=_('Search for')) price_range = RangeField(forms.IntegerField, widget=MyWidget)

  • forms
  • field
  • widget
  • range
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resize to thumbnail with scale-to-fill

**So you can upload rectangular pictures but still have square thumbnails.** "Scale to **fill**" instead of the out of the box "scale to **fit**" you get with `Image.thumbnail`

  • image
  • pil
  • thumbnail
  • resize
  • imagefield
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List all Form Errors

You can place this code above your form and it will list out all errors in your form if there are errors. Sometimes I like listing the errors at the top of the form because I think it looks cleaner. Make sure you add error_messages={'required': 'My detailed error here'} in your view.py for your form.

  • error
  • form
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Multi-level (tree-ish) navigation

An old snippet I made in my first django project. Nowadays I code menus in HTML and just use the perms proxy: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.0/topics/auth/#id6 Credits, (awsome persons that helped me getting it to work efficiently and for free): * Yhg1s and waveform from #python@freenode * zendak from #django@freenode Thank you!

  • menu
  • navigation
  • menubar
  • navbar
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Dynamic Backends

This allows various implementations of a common interface to be loaded. Back end modules can be specified in settings.py, and from there be loaded and treated polymorphically by an application.

  • backend
  • dynamic-factory
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CSRF this!

A form with built-in CSRF protection. Include CsrfCookieMiddleware in your MIDDLEWARE_SETTINGS, subclass SafeForm and off you go. See: [this django-developers post](http://groups.google.com/group/django-developers/browse_thread/thread/2c33621003992d07?hl=en) for more info. [edit] This form is actually WAY overengineered currently. Will update soon.

  • forms
  • csrf
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SignedForm: CSRF-protect forms with a hidden token field

This form subclass helps protect against cross-site request forgery by adding a hidden field named `csrf_token` to forms. The form must be initialized with the request as a keyword argument, both with and without POST data: my_form = MySignedForm(request=request) ... my_form = MySignedForm(request.POST, request=request) Upon validation, a `PermissionDenied` exception will be raised if forgery is detected. If any security details have been overlooked in this recipe, please leave a comment.

  • forms
  • csrf
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