This is intended as an unofficial Django extension package that adds support to a few HTMX functionalities. By default, Django ignores request parsing for all methods that are not GET and POST, this middleware extends that behaviour to PATCH and PUT HTMX ajax requests.
Since it simulates existing django infrastructure, you should be able to use and rely on the usual Django request behaviour the same way you do in vanilla, only with automatically parsed request bodies for those aditional methods.
Your vanilla Django views now work with aditional request methods!
You already use HTMX and wants aditional request method flexibility.
Your project uses REST apis or require robust content-type support which would be better served by standalone packages such as Django Rest Framework.
You should be used to acessing data in request.POST. The aditional methods follow in similar fashion, request.PATCH and request.PUT.
Data is also unifiably available in request.data, regardless of request method.
One of the caveats is with the security CRSF token. You need to explicitly request HTMX to pass the token as a request header.
In your templates you are likely used to doing something like this:
<form hx-post="/route">
{% csrf token %}
<-- rest of your form -->
</form>For aditional HTTP methods to work you need to pass it as such:
<form hx-patch="/route" hx-headers="{{csrf token}}">
<-- rest of your form -->
</form>Since the HX-headers attribute is inherited by nested HTML elements it is also possible to define it in a base template:
<body hx-headers="{{csrf token}}">
<form hx-patch="/route">
<-- rest of your form -->
</form>
<-- rest of your page -->
</body># download the package
python3 -m pip install django-ex
# in your projects settings.py include at the end:
...
MIDDLEWARE = [
...
"django_ex.middleware.http.ProtocolExtensionMiddleware",
]
...
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