"""
Useful decorators for web views.
"""
from functools import wraps
from flask import request, render_template
__all__ = ['templated']
# Copy/pasted from: http://flask.pocoo.org/docs/patterns/viewdecorators/
[docs]def templated(template=None):
"""
The idea of this decorator is that you return a dictionary with the values
passed to the template from the view function and the template
is automatically rendered.
@deprecated
"""
def decorator(f):
@wraps(f)
def decorated_function(*args, **kwargs):
template_name = template
if template_name is None:
template_name = request.endpoint.replace('.', '/') + '.html'
ctx = f(*args, **kwargs)
if ctx is None:
ctx = {}
elif not isinstance(ctx, dict):
return ctx
return render_template(template_name, **ctx)
return decorated_function
return decorator