Templatetags and Contexts / RequestContexts

[Joeboy]

Hi.

I have 'issues' with Contexts, RequestContexts and templatetags.
Possibly this is my problem and not Django's, but I'd like to be
persuaded of that.

I want to get the user in a templatetag, which seems like a perfectly
reasonable and common thing to want to do. As far as I can tell the way
to do this is to modify *every* *view* *in* *my* *project* to pass
either the user or a RequestContext. This removes the possibility of
decoupling the app with the templatetag in it, and seems generally a
bit unsanitary.

An obvious upstream solution would be to provide a way (if there isn't
one already) to basically replace Context() with RequestContext()
project-wide. I'm not sure if the devs envisage this kind of 'global'
use of RequestContexts or if they're supposed to be more exceptional -
if it's the former than I guess this would be an OK solution.

Nirvana would seem to me to be the ability to specify context
processors for the templatetag that don't pollute other contexts, and
allow for proper decoupling. I imagine that would be fairly notty to
implement, but hopefully there are people reading that know better than
I do...

So, can anyone tell me anything that'll make me happier about all of
this? Am I missing something obvious?

Cheers,

Joe