Question

suppose that you have a webpage that uses the post and get method, and you wrote the following view to generate it:

def homepage(request):
if 'login' in request.POST:
# ......... code goes here, and you return an appropriate response 

if 'register' in request.POST:
# ......... code goes here, and you return an appropriate response  

# When no Post request, just render the page
return render_to_response('homepage.html')

Question:

Is it considered good programming practice to split the above view into three views: one for login, one for register and one that would render the page? Or is it OK to keep it as it is.

EDIT

in the case listed above, I am not checking if the server received a “GET”. But the idea is still the same 🙂

Answer 1

I think a better idea would be to have each of the two forms submit to a different URL. Then you can define views for, e.g., /login, /register, and / (the default homepage handler). Your views for /login and /register can use if request.method == 'POST', and then redirect to the homepage if they are called with a GET request.