What is this?
=============

Probably one of the stupidest ideas, but here's a simple django app that'll let
you automatically include your views args values into the context.

Why?
===

Say we have a view latest_tagged_objects that lists the latest objects tagged
with a given tag.

def latest_tagged_objects(request, obj, limit, tag):
    """
    Displays the 'limit' latest objects 'obj' tagged with 'tag'
    """
    # Retrieve these objects

    #create a context that will include the args passed to this view along with
    #other variables

    context = dict(
        obj=obj,
        limit=limit,
        tag=tag,
        #Other variables here
    )

Now, this is just an example and that could be done with generic views, right.
But my problem is with including the arguments passed to my view in the context
each and everytime.

And here comes my stupidest idea. Honestly, I don't know if this is done before
and whether it is a good practice or not, but I wrote a simple middleware and
context processor that together put views names and arguments in templates
contexts automatically.

Mind you, this took me less than 5 minutes and this why I wonder if it is worth
sharing.

How to use it?
==============

1) Add viewctx.middleware.ViewMiddleware to your middlewares in settings.py
2) Add viewctx.context_processors.view to your context processors in settings.py

In your templates from now on, you can simply use for eg.

{% if view.view_name == 'blog.latest_tagged_posts' %} 
i.e. the view calling this template is blog.latest_tagged_posts

Or something like:

<h2>{% view.kwargs.limit %} recent posts</h2>

instead of explecitely adding the 'limit' variable to your view's context.

In other words, all the arguments passed to your view, and the view name are
added to the context in respectively: view.kwars.argument_name and
view.view_name

# Note to self: Write better doc. No, really.