django-crequest

Contents

• Overview
• Installing
• Supported Python versions
• How to use
• In depth & Complex details

Overview

• crequest takes care of current request in silent way.
• crequest will bring you current request object of your Django application from anywhere in your code.

Installing

django-crequest is available on http://pypi.python.org/pypi/django-crequest So it can be installed it by pip:

$ python pip install django-crequest

Or you can grab the latest version tarball and

$ python setup.py install

To enable django-crequest in your project

• Add crequest to INSTALLED_APPS in your settings.py
• Add crequest.middleware.CrequestMiddleware to MIDDLEWARE_CLASSES after the authentication and session middleware.

Supported Python versions

django-crequest currently can be run on multiple python versions:

• Python 2
• Python 3
• PyPy

How to use

First import the crequest's middleware:

from crequest.middleware import CrequestMiddleware

Get the current request ;):

current_request = CrequestMiddleware.get_request()

Done.

In depth & Complex details

Set the current request in UnKnown situations:

CrequestMiddleware.set_request(request)

Return iam_request if there is no current request:

CrequestMiddleware.get_request(iam_request)

And finally delete:

CrequestMiddleware.del_request()

The middleware automatically sets/deletes the current request for HTTP requests. For other uses (management commands, scripts), you will need to do this yourself.