Django: How to provide context to all views (not templates)?

Question

I want to provide some context to all my function-based views (FBV) similar to the way TEMPLATE_CONTEXT_PROCESSORS (CP) provides context to all of one\'s templa

Answer 1

Based on mwjackson 's answer and on docs, for Django 1.11, I think the middleware should be:

# middleware/my_middleware.py
class MyModelMiddleware(object):
    def __init__(self, get_response):
        self.get_response = get_response
        # One-time configuration and initialization.

    def __call__(self, request):
        # Code to be executed for each request before
        # the view (and later middleware) are called.
        # TODO - your processing here
        request.extra_model = result_from_processing
        response = self.get_response(request)

        # Code to be executed for each request/response after
        # the view is called.

        return response

In settings.py, add the path to your Middleware on MIDDLEWARE = () . Following the tips from this site, I had created a folder inside my app called middleware and added a new file, say my_middleware.py, with a class called, say, MyModelMiddleware. So, the path that I had added to MIDDLEWARE was my_app.middleware.my_middleware.MyModelMiddleware.

# settings.py
MIDDLEWARE = (
    ...
    'my_app.middleware.my_middleware.MyModelMiddleware',
)

Answer 2

Use Middleware...

class MyModelMiddleware(object):
    def process_request(self, request):

        request.extra_model = self.get_model(request.user)