Sometimes you have to serve null files. This quick hacky generic view lets you do that. The best example of that is robots.txt, I want my robots.txt to always be empty, at least for now. The other example would be favicon.ico, but that's more often used to actually fill a purpose.
I was faced with the fact that I wanted to post 2 paragraph-long summaries on one of my sites, and this is what I did (you could of course cut it down earlier, but I'd say this belongs to what is called "template logic") Use like so: {% load myExtraModule %} {{ blogpost.content|paragraphs:"2" }} The lines filter works the exact same way, and you might want to improve on these a bit, I don't maintain them as I don't use them anymore.
This takes advantage of a recently added feature to django, being able to give it real functions as the view instead of having it be a string that is has to look up itself. It takes advantage of how decorators work and how `cache_control` works, normally you'd do something like this: @cache_control(private=True, public=False) def view_stuff(request): # ... return response Which is equal to doing `view_stuff = cache_control(private=True, public=False)(view_stuff)` after definition. `cache_control` is a function factory, more or less, which we use to our advantage.
A simple way to enable static serving while in development stage still - on release, simply set up the web server to serve the static content instead, and adjust `MEDIA_URL` accordingly.
A clean and simple implementation of parsing the Accept header. It places the result in request.accepted_types. Place this middleware anywhere in the chain, as all it does is add to the request object.