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A HTCPCP Implementation for Django
from random import randint
from django.http import HttpResponse
class HTCPCPMiddleware(object):
"""
This middleware allows a your django project to act as a HTCPCP (Hyper
Text Coffee Pot Control Protocol) server. If the user requests to BREW
a coffee, and it is not on the list. Then it will get a `406 Not
Acceptable`, and randomly it will respond with `418 I'm a teapot`.
If the request is not a HTCPCP (BREW) Request then the middleware will
quit leaving django to handle the request.
"""
coffee_list = [
'/espresso/',
'/espresso/americano/',
'/espresso/lungo/',
'/espresso/flat-white/',
'/black-coffee/',
'/latte/',
'/ristretto/',
'/cappuccino/'
]
def process_request(self, request):
if request.method != 'BREW' or request.method != 'WHEN':
return
if randint(-10, 5) > 0:
return HttpResponse('I\'m a teapot short and stout.', status=418)
if request.method == 'WHEN':
return HttpResponse('Your coffee is complete.')
if request.path in self.coffee_list:
return HttpResponse('The coffee is brewed, please send a WHEN request when we should stop pouring the milk.')
else:
return HttpResponse('Unrecognised coffee, %s' % ', '.join(self.coffee_list), status=406)
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amfg commented Jul 25, 2015

I was wondering, why it does not work for me! Then I noticed you have a typo in url, it should be /black-coffee/ :-<

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