"""Mixin classes that provide a determine_content(request) method to return the content type and content of a request. We use this more generic behaviour to allow for overloaded content in POST forms. """ class ContentMixin(object): """Base class for all ContentMixin classes, which simply defines the interface they provide.""" def determine_content(self, request): """If the request contains content return a tuple of (content_type, content) otherwise return None. Note that content_type may be None if it is unset. Must be overridden to be implemented.""" raise NotImplementedError() class StandardContentMixin(ContentMixin): """Standard HTTP request content behaviour. See RFC 2616 sec 4.3 - http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec4.html#sec4.3""" def determine_content(self, request): """If the request contains content return a tuple of (content_type, content) otherwise return None. Note that content_type may be None if it is unset.""" if not request.META.get('CONTENT_LENGTH', None) and not request.META.get('TRANSFER_ENCODING', None): return None return (request.META.get('CONTENT_TYPE', None), request.raw_post_data) class OverloadedContentMixin(ContentMixin): """HTTP request content behaviour that also allows arbitrary content to be tunneled in form data.""" """The name to use for the content override field in the POST form.""" CONTENT_PARAM = '_content' """The name to use for the content-type override field in the POST form.""" CONTENTTYPE_PARAM = '_contenttype' def determine_content(self, request): """If the request contains content return a tuple of (content_type, content) otherwise return None. Note that content_type may be None if it is unset.""" if not request.META.get('CONTENT_LENGTH', None) and not request.META.get('TRANSFER_ENCODING', None): return None content_type = request.META.get('CONTENT_TYPE', None) if (request.method == 'POST' and self.CONTENT_PARAM and request.POST.get(self.CONTENT_PARAM, None) is not None): # Set content type if form contains a none empty FORM_PARAM_CONTENTTYPE field content_type = None if self.CONTENTTYPE_PARAM and request.POST.get(self.CONTENTTYPE_PARAM, None): content_type = request.POST.get(self.CONTENTTYPE_PARAM, None) return (content_type, request.POST[self.CONTENT_PARAM]) return (content_type, request.raw_post_data)