how to discriminate based on HTTP method in django urlpatterns

Question

I\'m having some difficulties finding information about this, probably it\'s not the right approach. I\'d like to route a request to two different view functions based on th

Answer 1

Because Django allows you to use callables in url config, you can do it with a helper function.

def method_dispatch(**table):
    def invalid_method(request, *args, **kwargs):
        logger.warning('Method Not Allowed (%s): %s', request.method, request.path,
            extra={
                'status_code': 405,
                'request': request
            }
        )
        return HttpResponseNotAllowed(table.keys())

    def d(request, *args, **kwargs):
        handler = table.get(request.method, invalid_method)
        return handler(request, *args, **kwargs)
    return d

To use it:

url(r'^foo',
    method_dispatch(POST = post_handler,
                    GET = get_handler)),