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-"""Mixin classes that provide a determine_method(request) function to determine the HTTP
-method that a given request should be treated as. We use this more generic behaviour to
-allow for overloaded methods in POST forms.
-
-See Richardson & Ruby's RESTful Web Services for justification.
-"""
-
-class MethodMixin(object):
- """Base class for all MethodMixin classes, which simply defines the interface they provide."""
- def determine_method(self, request):
- """Simply return GET, POST etc... as appropriate."""
- raise NotImplementedError()
-
-
-class StandardMethodMixin(MethodMixin):
- """Provide for standard HTTP behaviour, with no overloaded POST."""
-
- def determine_method(self, request):
- """Simply return GET, POST etc... as appropriate."""
- return request.method.upper()
-
-
-class OverloadedPOSTMethodMixin(MethodMixin):
- """Provide for overloaded POST behaviour."""
-
- """The name to use for the method override field in the POST form."""
- METHOD_PARAM = '_method'
-
- def determine_method(self, request):
- """Simply return GET, POST etc... as appropriate, allowing for POST overloading
- by setting a form field with the requested method name."""
- method = request.method.upper()
- if method == 'POST' and self.METHOD_PARAM and request.POST.has_key(self.METHOD_PARAM):
- method = request.POST[self.METHOD_PARAM].upper()
- return method \ No newline at end of file