Distinguishing between view names

[Theron Luhn]

A lot of times I use the same view for both editing items and making new items.  How can I determine which view name is being called?  I know I'm not explaining myself very well, so to talk in code:

@view_config(context=Context, name='new', renderer='edit.pt')
@view_config(context=Context, name='edit', renderer='edit.pt')
def edit(context, request):
    if [name is 'edit']:
        #Load data to edit
    elif [name is 'new']:
        #Do something else
    #Do more stuff

[Andreas Kaiser]

I prefer a class based approach for things like this. It's a little more code, but IMHO has much better readability:

@view_defaults(context=Context, renderer='edit.pt')
class FooViews():
def __init__(self, context, request):
self.context = context
self.request = request

def do_common_stuff(self):
# do more stuff

@view_config(name='new')
def new(self):
#Do something else
self.do_common_stuff()

@view_config(name='edit')
#Load data to edit
self.do_common_stuff()


HTH,

Andreas

[Jason]

I believe it is available in request.matchdict['action'] -- at least if you are using urldispatch.

-- jason 

[Jeff Dairiki]

Or, if you're using traversal (which looks to be the case in your
example), the view name is in ``request.view_name``.

http://docs.pylonsproject.org/projects/pyramid/en/1.3-branch/api/request.html#pyramid.request.Request.view_name

[Theron Luhn]

Thanks Jeff, exactly what I was looking for!

- Theron

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