Django 1.4: Why is my context processor not working?

Question

I recently upgraded a project from Django 1.3 to 1.4, and that seems to have broken my context processor.

In myapp/myapp/processors.py:

def currentPath(request):
    return {'current_path': request.get_full_path()}

In myapp/myapp/settings.py:

from django.conf import global_settings

global_settings.TEMPLATE_CONTEXT_PROCESSORS += (
    'myapp.processors.currentPath',
    'django.core.context_processors.request',
)

In any template, {{ current_path }} is expected -- and did, until the upgrade, return the current path. Now, it is not getting processed at all. I'm absolutely stuck here.

Answer 1

In Django 1.8 adding processors to TEMPLATE_CONTEXT_PROCESSORS won't work.

Deprecated since version 1.8:
Set the 'context_processors' option in the OPTIONS of a DjangoTemplates backend instead.

You have to do it like this:

TEMPLATES = [
    {
        'BACKEND': 'django.template.backends.django.DjangoTemplates',
        'DIRS': [
            # insert your TEMPLATE_DIRS here
        ],
        'OPTIONS': {
            'context_processors': [
                # Insert your TEMPLATE_CONTEXT_PROCESSORS here or use this
                # list if you haven't customized them:
                'django.contrib.auth.context_processors.auth',
                'django.template.context_processors.debug',
                'django.template.context_processors.i18n',
                'django.template.context_processors.media',
                'django.template.context_processors.static',
                'django.template.context_processors.tz',
                'django.contrib.messages.context_processors.messages',
            ],
            'loaders': [
                # insert your TEMPLATE_LOADERS here
            ]
        },
    },
]

Answer 2

Just for kicks, would you consider specifying that setting the usual way:

- global_settings.TEMPLATE_CONTEXT_PROCESSORS += (
+ 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.core.context_processors.static',                                      
+     'django.contrib.messages.context_processors.messages',
     'myapp.processors.currentPath',
     'django.core.context_processors.request',
 )

This could eliminate your (useful-looking!) reference to global_settings as a source of the issue.

Secondly, if you run

manage.py shell

does

from myapp.processors import currentPath

work? Your project structure seems a litte quirky (I haven't seen a context processors in the same directory as settings.py before; my context.py is in the same directory as a models.py, which I understand should usually not be the same directory as settings.py).

(Converted from comment to answer at OP's request)