Question

I want to start processing some files from a django view and I want to be able to send the name of the files to the browser as they are processed. Is there a way to do this (easily)? I could probably do this using threads and ajax calls, but I want the simplest solution for now.

Answer 1

I found what I needed in an answer from one of the links that Andre Miller provided.

I found out that’s possible to pass an iterator to HttpResponse so I used this code and it worked:

def import_iter():
    """ Used to return output as it is generated """
    # First return the template
    t = loader.get_template('main/qimport.htm')
    c = Context()
    yield t.render(c)
    # Now process the files
    if req.method == 'POST':
        location = req.POST['location']
        if location:
            for finfo in import_location(location):
                yield finfo+"<br/>"

return HttpResponse(import_iter())