Hi all,

Just coming back to Django after an 18 month absense, great to see
some of the work that's gone on here, i'm really impressed! Been using
Rails for a while (not by choice) and it's a joy to get back into
Django.

Enough of the fluffing though, and down to business.

render_to_response is a great shortcut, however in my opinion it's let
down by not supporting request. I see this has been discussed a bit on
the ticket, however that's more in respect to replacing the existing
shortcut.

I propose a new shortcut of the following form:

Index: django/shortcuts/__init__.py
===================================================================
--- django/shortcuts/__init__.py        (revision 5526)
+++ django/shortcuts/__init__.py        (working copy)
@@ -5,11 +5,16 @@
 from django.template import loader
 from django.http import HttpResponse, Http404
 from django.db.models.manager import Manager
+from django.template.context import RequestContext

 def render_to_response(*args, **kwargs):
     return HttpResponse(loader.render_to_string(*args, **kwargs))
 load_and_render = render_to_response # For backwards compatibility.

+def render_to_response_with_req(request, *args, **kwargs):
+    kwargs['context_instance'] = RequestContext(request)
+    return render_to_response(*args, **kwargs)
+
 def get_object_or_404(klass, *args, **kwargs):
     if isinstance(klass, Manager):
         manager = klass

 def get_object_or_404(klass, *args, **kwargs):
     if isinstance(klass, Manager):
         manager = klass

If anyone has any ideas for better names, please chip in.

Regards,

Paul

On Jun 26, 10:45 am, Paul Bowsher <paul.bows...@gmail.com> wrote:

Welcome back ;)

render_to_response(context_instance=RequestContext(request))
Convoluted, and it means having to import RequestContext, but it is
possible.

I agree, an official shortcut would be good. This comes up at least
daily on IRC, with the usual response being http://www.djangosnippets.org/snippets/3/

On 6/26/07, Paul Bowsher <paul.bows...@gmail.com> wrote:

Isn't this just the 'direct_to_template' generic view?

Yours,
Russ Magee %-)

No, this is meant to go at the end of a long view function
def index(request):
    # Lots of code
    render_to_response_with_req(request, 'home/index.html', {'a': 'dict'})

etc.

On 6/27/07, Russell Keith-Magee <freakboy3...@gmail.com> wrote:

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Paul Bowsher

On Jun 27, 8:46 pm, "Paul Bowsher" <paul.bows...@gmail.com> wrote:

Firstly, you should be `return`ing this request. ;)

Secondly, it looks like the direct_to_template function does exactly
this (albeit with a tiny bit of overhead in checking for and calling
callable context items).

Yes, sorry, I missed the return, was hastily typed as an example. Hadn't
seen direct_to_template, that does indeed seem like a good way to go. Thanks
for the pointer :)

On 6/27/07, SmileyChris <smileych...@gmail.com> wrote:

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Paul Bowsher