Flask Framework Cookbook

Decorator to handle requests beautifully

Some of us might think that checking whether a request is XHR or not every time kills code readability. To solve this, we have an easy solution. We can just write a simple decorator that will handle this redundant code for us.

Getting ready

In this recipe, we will be writing a decorator. For some of the beginners in Python, this might seem like alien territory. In this case, read http://legacy.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0318/ for a better understanding of decorators.

How to do it…

The following is the decorator method that we have written for this recipe:

from functools import wraps def template_or_json(template=None): """"Return a dict from your view and this will either pass it to a template or render json. Use ...