https://github.com/rixx/django-context-decorator

Django @context decorator
https://github.com/rixx/django-context-decorator

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Django @context decorator

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/rixx/django-context-decorator
• Owner: rixx
• Created: 2019-04-13T10:27:46.000Z (over 6 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2024-03-07T13:58:42.000Z (over 1 year ago)
• Last Synced: 2025-04-01T13:51:16.446Z (8 months ago)
• Topics: django
• Language: Python
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• Size: 17.6 KB
• Stars: 22
• Watchers: 2
• Forks: 5
• Open Issues: 0
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  • Readme: README.rst

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django-context-decorator

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``django-context-decorator`` is a Python package for Django removing the need

to call ``super().get_context_data(**kwargs)`` in nearly every Django view.

You can also read the `blog post`_ about this package.

***Note:*** If this package is looking unmaintained due to no recent commits, that’s

because it’s a tiny package that is feature complete and stable. I see no need to

release a new version just to add explicit compatibility with new Django versions,

but for as long as Django provides class-based views with a ``get_context_data``

method, this package will work with them.

Usage

=====

.. code-block:: python

   from django_context_decorator import context

   from django.utils.functional import cached_property

   from django.views.generic import TemplateView

   class MyView(TemplateView):

       template_name = 'path/to/template.html'

       @context

       def context_variable(self):

           return 'context value'

       @context

       @property

       def context_property(self):

           return 'context property'

       @context

       @cached_property

       def expensive_context_property(self):

           return 'expensive context property'

Now you'll have access to ``{{ context_variable }}``, ``{{ context_property }}``

and ``{{ expensive_context_property }}`` in your template.

Please note: While this package works with the ``@cached_property`` decorator,

please make sure to add the ``@context`` decorator **above** the

``@cached_property`` decorator.

This is especially useful when you couple it with inheritance, because it

allows you to re-use parent class variables without having to extract them from

your ``context``. So you could write a long-form like this:

.. code-block:: python

    from django.views.generic import TemplateView

    

    class BaseMixin:

        def get_context_data(self, **kwargs):

            ctx = super().get_context_data(**kwargs)

            ctx['var_from_base_mixin'] = 'var_from_base_mixin'

            return ctx

    class View1(BaseMixin, TemplateView):

        def get_context_data(self, **kwargs):

            ctx = super().get_context_data(**kwargs)

            ctx['var_from_view_1'] = 'value_from_view_1'

            return ctx

    class View2(View1):

        def get_context_data(self, **kwargs):

            ctx = super().get_context_data(**kwargs)

            ctx['var_from_view_2'] = 'value_from_view_2'

            return ctx

instead like this:

.. code-block:: python

    from django.views.generic import TemplateView

    from django_context_decorator import context

    class BaseMixin:

        @context

        def var_from_base_mixin(self):

            return 'var_from_base_mixin'

    class View1(BaseMixin, TemplateView):

        @context

        def var_from_view_1(self):

            return 'value_from_view_1'

    class View2(View1):

        @context

        def var_from_view_2(self):

            return 'value_from_view_2'

Development

===========

All code resides in ``django_context_decorator.py``. Tests are collected by

``pytest`` from all files starting with ``test_``. To run tests, start a

virtual environment, install the dependencies, and run ``pytest``::

    pip install django pytest pytest-cov

    pytest --cov-report term --cov=django_context_decorator

.. _blog post: https://rixx.de/blog/a-context-decorator-for-django/