You can use the new thread local 'current' object. In your module file:
from gluon import *
def use_custom_view(viewname):
[snip]
current.response.view = '%s.%s' % (viewname,
current.request.extension)
[snip]
Also, note that local_import is no longer necessary -- now you can just do:
import helpers
Anthony
On Sunday, October 30, 2011 11:35:27 AM UTC-4, Samuele Santi wrote:
>
> 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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