django-pandora 0.1.0 (beta)

Opening Pandora's box by making django's request object available in a thread local.

Usage

The pandora.box object implements a dict like interface which you can use to store thread local values. It's really as simple as using a dictionary:

>>> from pandora import box
>>> box['foo'] = 'Hello world!'
>>> box['foo']

'Hello world!' >>> 'foo' in box True >>> 'bar' in box False >>> box['bar'] Traceback (most recent call last): ... KeyError: 'bar' >>> box.get('bar', None) None

As mentioned above, you might want to use the box to store the current request object. Pandora ships with a custom middleware for this purpose. Just append 'pandora.middleware.RequestMiddleware' to your MIDDLEWARE_CLASSES setting. You can then access the request with box['request'].

There is also another middleware that stores the current user object in box['user']. To use this, add 'pandora.middleware.UserMiddleware' to your MIDDLEWARE_CLASSES setting, but make sure that it is listed after 'django.contrib.auth.middleware.AuthenticationMiddleware'.

Tips

• You don't need to import the box object into your module if you think the name

is too generic and might clash with some of your local names. Just use

>>> import pandora
>>> pandora.box['request']

...

• Even if opening Pandora's box might not seem too evil at the first glance,

please try to avoid it and pass the request object or any other dependency around where possible. Having a global state makes things more difficult for everyone - especially to reliably test your code.

• Read the `Wikipedia article about Pandora's box

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<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pandora's_box>`_.

0.1.0

Initial release.