Question

I am trying to implement django-facebookconnect, for I need to check if a user logged in via Facebook or a regular user.

At the template, I can check if user logged in via facebook by checking request.facebook.uid
such as:

{% if is_facebook %}
{% show_facebook_photo user %}
{% endif %}

For this, I need to pass is_facebook': request.facebook.uid to the template and I will be using this in everywhere thus I want tried to apply it to an existing template context processor and call the snipplet above at the base.html, and it works fine for Foo objects:

def global_variables(request):
    from django.conf import settings
    from myproject.myapp.models import Foo
    return {'is_facebook': request.facebook.uid,'foo_list': Foo.objects.all()}

I can list Foo objects at any view without any issue however it fails for this new is_facebook, it simply returns nothing.

If I pass ‘is_facebook’: request.facebook.uid in every single view , it works but I need this globally for any view rendering.

Answer 1

If you have access via the request object, why do you need to add a special is_facebook boolean at all? Just enable the built-in django.core.context_processors.request and this will ensure that request is present in all templates, then you can do this:

{% if request.facebook.uid %}