Question

I am currently passing 'request_path': request.get_full_path() through render_to_response. I was wondering is this is really nessccary since I was told the it’s unnesscary and the context processor takes care of that but {{ get_full_path }} is empty.

Please advise.

Answer 1

You need to add django.core.context_processors.request in your template context processors settings which is not there by default and render the response with RequestContext. Like

return render_to_response('my_template.html', 
                        my_data_dictionary,  
                        context_instance=RequestContext(request))

This will add request variable in your template, then you can use {{ request.get_full_path() }} in a template.