RFC: Shim to allow view classes rather than functions

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from django.conf.urls.defaults import patterns as django_patterns
from django.conf.urls.defaults import url

def patterns(*urls):
	pages = []
	
	for cls in urls:
		if isinstance(cls, type):
			inst = cls()
			pages.append(url(inst.url, inst.resource, name = inst.name))
		else:
			#oldstyle resources
			pages.append(cls)
	return django_patterns(*pages)

	
class Page(object):
	
	url = r"^$"
	
	def resource(self, request, *args, **kwargs):
		if request.method == "GET":
			return self.get(request, *args, **kwargs)
		
		if request.method == "POST":
			return self.post(request, *args, **kwargs)
	
	@property
	def	name(self):
		return "%s-%s" % (self.__class__.__name__, "page")

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Comments

Romain Hardouin (on March 12, 2009):

Do you want to make a view in style of RoR?

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akaihola (on March 27, 2009):

I've experimented with class-based views in one of my projects. The nasty part is when you want to start using third-party or Django's stock decorators on your views while still being able to access individual methods and attributes in your unit tests.

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