Question

I have the following middleware class:

class CommonContextMiddleware:
    def process_template_response(self, request, response):
        # Get the context and top videos
        context = response.context_data

        ...

        # Add most_recent and most_viewed to the context...
        context['most_recent'] = top_videos['most_recent'][:3]
        context['most_viewed'] = top_videos['most_viewed'][:3]

        # ...then continue rendering
        return response

However, no matter what I put in the function, it’s never being called. I presumed that this method would be called for every single template response generated, am I wrong?

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

I assume when you’re talking about “template response”, you are actually returning a TemplateResponse from your Django view?

This isn’t really the best place for this sort of thing. If you just want to add variables into every template context, the best place to do it is in a context processor.