Django snippets

from django.http import HttpResponse
from django.shortcuts import render_to_response
from django.template import RequestContext
from django.conf import settings

class render:
    '''Register response engines based on HTTP_ACCEPT
     
     parameters:
         template: template for html rendering
         format: supported formats ('json','html')
         
     @render('index.html')
     def my_view(request)

     @render('index.html', ('json',))
     def my_view(request)
          
    html format is supported by default if a template is defined.
    
     @render('json')
     def my_view(request)
    
    in above case, json is the default format.
    
    '''
    class render_decorator:
        
        def __init__(self, parent, view_func):
            self.parent = parent
            self.view_func = view_func
        
        def __call__(self, *args, **kwargs):
            request = args[0]    
            context = self.view_func(*args, **kwargs)

            if isinstance(context, HttpResponse):
                return context
            
            engine = None
            
            if request.META.has_key('HTTP_ACCEPT'):
                accept = request.META['HTTP_ACCEPT']
                for content in self.parent.engines.iterkeys():
                    if accept.find(content)<>-1:
                        engine, template = self.parent.engines.get(content) 
                        break
            
            if engine is None:
                engine, template = self.parent.engines.get(self.parent.default)
            
            cook = context.pop('cookjar',None)

            if 'html'==engine:
                response = self.html_render(request, context, template)
            elif 'json'==engine:
                response = self.json_render(request, context)
            else:
                response = context

            if isinstance(response, HttpResponse):
                if cook:
                    for k,v in cook.iteritems():
                        if v is None:
                            response.delete_cookie(str(k))
                        else:
                            response.set_cookie(str(k), str(v), getattr(settings, 'COMMON_COOKIE_AGE', None))

            return response
            
        def json_render(self,request, context):
            return render_to_json(context)
        
        def html_render(self,request, context, template):
            return render_to_response(
                template, 
                context, 
                context_instance=RequestContext(request),
            )            
    
    def __register_engine(self, engine, template, default = False):
        
        if engine == 'json':
            content_type = 'application/json'
        elif engine == 'html':
            content_type = 'text/html'
        else:
            raise ValueError("Unsuported format %s" % engine)
        
        if default:
            self.default = content_type
        self.engines[content_type] = engine, template
        
    def __init__(self, template=None, format=None):

        self.engines = {}
        
        if format is None:
            format = ()
        elif not isinstance(format, tuple):
            format = (format,)

        if template == 'json':
            self.__register_engine('json', None, True)
        elif template:
            self.__register_engine('html', template, True)
            
        for f in format:
            self.__register_engine(f, None)
            
    def __call__(self, view_func):
        return render.render_decorator(self, view_func)

###### --- RENDER TO JSON --- ######

import time
import datetime
import types
from decimal import *

from django.db import models
from django.utils import simplejson as json
from django.core.serializers.json import DateTimeAwareJSONEncoder
from django.http import HttpResponse

def render_to_json(context):
    resp = []
    for k in context.iterkeys():
        resp.append('"%s": %s' % (k, parse(context[k])))
    data = '{%s}' % ','.join(resp)
    return HttpResponse(data, mimetype='application/json')    
    
def parse(data):
    """
    The main issues with django's default json serializer is that properties that
    had been added to a object dynamically are being ignored (and it also has 
    problems with some models).
    """

    def _any(data):
        ret = None
        if type(data) is types.ListType:
            ret = _list(data)
        elif type(data) is types.DictType:
            ret = _dict(data)
        elif isinstance(data, Decimal):
            # json.dumps() cant handle Decimal
            #ret = str(data)
            ret = float(data)
        elif isinstance(data, models.query.QuerySet):
            # Actually its the same as a list ...
            ret = _list(data)
        elif isinstance(data, models.Model):
            ret = _model(data)
        elif isinstance(data, datetime.date):
            ret = time.strftime("%Y/%m/%d",data.timetuple())
        else:
            ret = data
        return ret
    
    def _model(data):
        ret = {}
        # If we only have a model, we only want to encode the fields.
        for f in data._meta.fields:
            ret[f.attname] = _any(getattr(data, f.attname))
        # And additionally encode arbitrary properties that had been added.
        fields = dir(data.__class__) + ret.keys()
        add_ons = [k for k in dir(data) if k not in fields]
        for k in add_ons:
            ret[k] = _any(getattr(data, k))
        return ret
    
    def _list(data):
        ret = []
        for v in data:
            ret.append(_any(v))
        return ret
    
    def _dict(data):
        ret = {}
        for k,v in data.items():
            ret[k] = _any(v)
        return ret
    
    ret = _any(data)
    
    return json.dumps(ret, cls=DateTimeAwareJSONEncoder)