In many cases, I find out that I can use a single view to render results from multiple controllers, for example, I use this to render forms::
{{left_sidebar_enabled=right_sidebar_enabled=False}}
{{extend 'layout.html'}}
<h1>{{=title}}</h1>
{{=form}}
So I stored that view in ``default/form.html``, and I was calling that
this way from the controller::
def my_form():
# ...
response.view = 'default/form.'+request.extension
return dict(title=mytitle, form=myform)
But it doesn't look very clear at first look which controllers use which
custom view, etc. so I decided to write a decorator to do that.
I came up with this::
def use_custom_view(viewname):
"""Decorator to be used to customize the view to be used
to render a given controller.
"""
def _use_newcontroller(func):
def _newcontroller():
response.view = viewname+'.'+request.extension
return func()
return _newcontroller
return _use_newcontroller
It works quite nicely, and so I replaced the above ``my_form()`` with
this::
@use_custom_view('default/form')
def my_form():
# ...
return dict(title=mytitle, form=myform)
Then, I decided to move the ``use_custom_view()`` function into a
module, in order to reuse it in many controllers.
So, I created a module named ``helpers`` and placed the decorator
function there.
Now the problem is: how do I access ``request`` and ``response`` from
the module? There are many ways, as passing the two variables as
arguments to constructor, or copying them into the module scope.
I choose the second one, doing this::
helpers = local_import('helpers')
helpers.request = request
helpers.response = response
But I don't like having to do this each time I import that module..
Any suggestions on how to do better?
And, isn't already there something like this in the core?
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