Re: standalone script to call a view

On Fri, Jun 28, 2013 at 7:47 AM, Javier Guerra Giraldez
<javier@guerrag.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 28, 2013 at 8:21 AM, Larry Martell <larry.martell@gmail.com> wrote:
>> I don't really understand what you mean by "create a function which is
>> be called by view and your script."
>
>
> AFAICT, your situation looks like this:
>
> you have this:
>
> def myview(request, maybesomeparams...):
> .... does lots of things....
> return HttpResponse(...templates,...)
>
> now you want that "lot of things" from the command line, but to call
> view you must create a request and interpret the response, because the
> view function works only within a web request/response cycle.
>
>
> you can refactor it like this:
>
>
> def utilityfunction(user, otherparams...):
> ... does some things (with database? no matter)...
> return somepythondata
>
>
> def myview(request, .....):
> # get data
> data = utilityfunction(request.user, .....)
> # use data to create response
> return HttpResponse(... templates...(data)...)
>
>
> def mycommandlinefunc(...):
> # find user (with username?)
> user=User.objects.get(username=....)
> # get data
> data = utilityfunction(user, .....)
> # use data to create output
> # maybe using a different template
> print RenderToString(template, data)
>
>
> the point is not to call the view function, because it does things in
> a very web-specific way, but instead encapsulate whatever is common to
> both the view and the commandline operation into a separate function
> and use that in both cases.

Thanks for the reply. I got this going. I ended up instantiating the
class that actually does the db pull, and initializing and calling
that.

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