import re from django.conf import settings from django.http import HttpResponseServerError from dojango.util import dojo_collector class AJAXSimpleExceptionResponse: """Thanks to newmaniese of http://www.djangosnippets.org/snippets/650/ . Full doc (copied from link above). When debugging AJAX with Firebug, if a response is 500, it is a pain to have to view the entire source of the pretty exception page. This is a simple middleware that just returns the exception without any markup. You can add this anywhere in your python path and then put it in you settings file. It will only unprettify your exceptions when there is a XMLHttpRequest header. Tested in FF2 with the YUI XHR. Comments welcome. """ def process_exception(self, request, exception): #if settings.DEBUG: # we should use that setting in future version of dojango #if request.is_ajax(): # new in django version 1.0 if request.META.get('HTTP_X_REQUESTED_WITH', None) == 'XMLHttpRequest': import sys, traceback (exc_type, exc_info, tb) = sys.exc_info() response = "%s\n" % exc_type.__name__ response += "%s\n\n" % exc_info response += "TRACEBACK:\n" for tb in traceback.format_tb(tb): response += "%s\n" % tb return HttpResponseServerError(response) class DojoCollector: """This middleware enables/disables the global collector object for each request. It is needed, when the dojango.forms integration is used. """ def process_request(self, request): dojo_collector.activate() def process_response(self, request, response): dojo_collector.deactivate() return response class DojoAutoRequire: """ USE THE MIDDLEWARE ABOVE (IT IS USING A GLOBAL COLLECTOR OBEJCT)! This middleware detects all dojoType="*" definitions in the returned response and uses that information to generate all needed dojo.require statements and places a \n' % self._get_dojo_requires(unique_dojo_modules), 'sep':sep, 'head':head, } return response def _get_dojo_requires(self, dojo_modules): return "\n".join([u"dojo.require(\"%s\");" % require for require in dojo_modules])