I'm in the process of upgrading a website from Django 1.4 and I'm run into
a problem of getting my code that shows a form on almost every page
migrated. I eventually want to upgrade to Django 1.11 but I'm currently
working on upgrading from Django 1.4 to Django 1.5. I have a “request
information” form on each page except for a few sign-up pages.
In Django 1.4 I used direct_to_template for most of the website. I have a
<base.html> that is inheirted by each page. For example <home.html>,
<about-us.html>, etc. inherit from <base.html>. In <base.html> I load the
right columns html with
“{% block rightColumn %} {%include "site/rightColumn.html"%}
{%endblock%}”
and then in <rightColumn.html> I load the form's html with
“{%include "site/reqInfoForm.html"%}”.
To get the from on each page I used middleware similar to this
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2734055/putting-a-django-login-form-on-every-page.
I created a class with a method “def process_view(self, request, view_func,
view_args, view_kwargs)”. In the method if a POST request and not one of
the signup pages then I create a form instance from the request and if the
form is valid then process it then redirect to thanks page, otherwise
attach the form to the request so that I can show the errors in the form
template.
This worked perfectly in Django 1.4 though it seemed like a hack.
While upgrading to Django 1.5 in the url.py I switched from
“direct_to_template” to “TemplateView.as_view”. Now when there is an error
in the form (i.e., leave a required field blank), I get an error “"POST /
HTTP/1.1" 405 0” while running with the local server. When I did some
research, it appears TemplateView doesn't have a POST method.
It seems one way may be to add TemplateView for each page but it seems like
I would have to add a post method for each page(or maybe a mixin). Any
thoughts on this method? I found another method using context processors
but I'm not following it. Also any suggestions on other ways of adding a
form to almost all pages?
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