Is it possible to return an HttpResponse object in render function?

Question

Reasons for why someone would want to do this aside, is it possible? Something along the lines of

from cms.plugin_base import CMSPluginBase
from data_viewer.models.data_view import DataPlugin
from django.http import HttpResponse

    class CMSPlugin(CMSPluginBase):

        def render(self, context, instance)
            response = HttpResponse(content_type='text/csv')
            return response

Usually render functions require a context to be returned, thus this code doesn't work as is. Once again, I know this isn't typical. I just want to know if it's possible

Thanks in advance, all help is appreciated!

Answer 1

In short: No.

The render method is very unfortunately named and should really be called get_context. It must return a dictionary or Context instance, see the docs

If you want to extend django CMS with something that returns HttpResponse objects, have a look at apphooks.