Tag "class"

View and StatefulView classes

This snippet provides two view classes. The two reason I wanted to write this are, 1) Not have to import all the boilerplate code for each view and 2) so I could have the same URL handle loading a persons profile, or handle an OpenID login request without having to write two separate views. (Yes I know it isnt to hard to write my view, check the header and pass it off to the proper handler view, but I think it looks better code wise to have the handler methods all in one class) The first one is just for normal views conveniently called *View*. The *View* class that lets you do at least 90% of what you can do in a normal view function, but without having to import all the normal boilerplate code first since this class wraps methods around most if not all the *HttpResponse* types. The second class *StatefulView* maintains its state across page loads This is especialy useful for ajax type calls where you wish to maintain some form of state while the user is doing something but do not wish to make DB calls and do not wish to polute the session with trivial things **Note:** On my system it maintains state across browsers and computers as it is not tied to the session, BUT for this to happen all requests must be handled by the same proccess. So requests going to a differing process with not have the state maintained.