Accessing Environment Variables in Views

# In this toy example we're logging information about a user profile (the 'avatar') and request parameters.

# views.py

from django.shortcuts import render_to_response
from environment import env
import logging

log = logging.getLogger('environ_test')

def test_view(request):
    log.debug('Logging request from avatar %s using params %s' % (str(env.avatar),str(env.params)))
    return render_to_response('test.html',{})

# to make this work, we would need to make the following environment file (.env)
from environment.standard import RequestParameterGenerator, AuthProfileGenerator

entries = {
    'avatar':AuthProfileGenerator(), # gets the auth profile model instance associated with the current user
    'params':RequestParameterGenerator(), # gets the request parameters as a dictionary
}