django-status-cats

The HTTP Status Cats are obviously among the best photo sets of all time. Don't you want to be able to return them as part of your Django app's HttpResponses?

Now you can. Install this middleware and your Django project will be 100% more catful!

All HttpResponses will get an added X-Status-Cat header linking to the appropriate cat photo. You may also render some or all of your HttpResponses with status-code-appropriate cat pics. A simple configuration option lets you specify which status codes get which treatment.

The default settings will break your project (but with cats!), so you probably want change them (see below).

Installation

pip install django-status-cats

Configuration

In your Django settings file:

• add status_cats.middleware.StatusCatMiddleware to MIDDLEWARE_CLASSES
• add status_cats to INSTALLED_APPS
• make sure you have django.template.loaders.eggs.Loader in your TEMPLATE_LOADERS

Optionally, you may configure the following variables:

STATUS_CATS_CAT_TEMPLATE: The template to use when rendering a page with a status cat picture. This template will be rendered with the following context:

    {'cat_url': cat_url,
    # 'base.html' by default; else STATUS_CATS_BASE_TEMPLATE
    'base_template': BASE_TEMPLATE, 
    'status_code': status_code}

Default value: status_cats/default.html (provided by django-status-cats).

STATUS_CATS_BASE_TEMPLATE: The template (in your project) extended by STATUS_CATS_CAT_TEMPLATE.

Default value: base.html.

STATUS_CATS_HEADER_ONLY (list of integers): The HTTP status codes for which responses should have a cat-themed header added, but should not be rendered with a cat-themed template.

Default value: [200]

That is, any of your pages which respond with 200 OK will be rendered in the normal manner, but all other responses will be presented to the user as cat web pages.

STATUS_CATS_HEADER_ONLY_ALL (Boolean): If True, only apply HTTP X-Status-Cat headers to all responses; never render cat templates. If False, observe behavior of STATUS_CATS_HEADER_ONLY if specified, else defaults.

Default value: False

Development and testing

Want to make changes? Download the project and go to town.

If you'd like to run the test suite, python test_project/manage.py test test_project.tests

If you'd like to run the test app to see your changes in the browser, python test_projectanage.py runserver. URLs of the form /[status_code] provoke HTTP responses of the appropriate status code.

Dependencies

Just Django.

This has been tested on Django 1.8.5, but probably works at least as far back as Django 1.4. (Though if you're running anything < 1.7, if possible please update to a supported version!)

It doesn't have any obvious reason to fail on python3, but running the test_project under python3 leads to occasional errors. They may be in Django, not django-status-cats, but I'm not going to certify this as python3 compliant until I figure that out.