Re: Accessing attributes of the current view in Django middleware?

On Saturday, December 28, 2013 6:44:16 PM UTC, alk wrote:

On Saturday, December 28, 2013 8:19:22 AM UTC-5, thinkin...@gmail.com wrote:

Hey,

Try along these lines:

    def process_view(self, request, view_func, view_args, view_kwargs):

        view = get_class(view_func.__module__, view_func.__name__)

        view.my_attribute

Heh, yeah, this seems to be the only way.  I was kind of headed in this direction but I'm fairly new to Django/python, and to programming in general.  Is this safe/efficient?  I guess this just involves importing the view class once per request -- doesn't seem like a big deal but would love some feedback.

Thanks again!

Is it safe: well, as far as I can tell there is no reason it should not be. In terms of efficiency, it's always a little bit an overhead to every request, no matter you need it or not. Have a look at this code:

https://github.com/thinkingpotato/django-permissionsx/blob/v0.0.6/permissionsx/middleware.py

There's some caching done etc. And it's been tested in production. I had to retreat from that solution for a few reasons (one of them was making the permissions available for other apps or frameworks), but I've spent several hours looking for a better approach with not much success.

Good luck,

R.

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