creating my own context processor in django

Question

I have come to a point where I need to pass certain variables to all of my views (mostly custom authentication type variables).

I was told writing my own context processor was the best way to do this, but I am having some issues.

My settings file looks like this

TEMPLATE_CONTEXT_PROCESSORS = (     "django.contrib.auth.context_processors.auth",     "django.core.context_processors.debug",     "django.core.context_processors.i18n",     "django.core.context_processors.media",     "django.contrib.messages.context_processors.messages",     "sandbox.context_processors.say_hello",  ) 

As you can see, I have a module called 'context_processors' and a function within that called 'say_hello'.

Which looks like

def say_hello(request):         return {             'say_hello':"Hello",         } 

Am I right to assume I can now do the following within my views?

{{ say_hello }} 

Right now, this renders to nothing in my template.

My view looks like

from django.shortcuts import render_to_response  def test(request):         return render_to_response("test.html") 

Answer 1

The context processor you have written should work. The problem is in your view.

Are you positive that your view is being rendered with RequestContext?

For example:

def test_view(request):     return render_to_response('template.html') 

The view above will not use the context processors listed in TEMPLATE_CONTEXT_PROCESSORS. Make sure you are supplying a RequestContext like so:

def test_view(request):     return render_to_response('template.html', context_instance=RequestContext(request))