Django admin template: Accessing request object in template

Question

I need the request object in all admin templates. In frontend templates, I can achieve this by rendering the template with RequestContext:

return render_to_response('my_template.html',
    my_data_dictionary,
    context_instance=RequestContext(request)
)

With that, I can access the request object in frontend:

{{ request.path }}

How can I do this for all admin views in Django 1.2?

Did you add `request` `TEMPLATE_CONTEXT_PROCESSORS` ? – Ahsan Jul 02 '12 at 07:59 — Ahsan, Jul 02 '12 at 07:59

score 8 · Accepted Answer · answered Jul 02 '12 at 08:01

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The request should be available in the admin templates if you have 'django.core.context_processors.request' added to your TEMPLATE_CONTEXT_PROCESSORS in your settings.py

answered Jul 02 '12 at 08:01

Timmy O'Mahony

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should this only be needed to access `request`-properties within **admin-templates**? using django 1.5 in combination with `django.shortcuts.render` which should implicitly include request it appears that this is needed for own (non-admin) views as well. can you confirm or even explain? (btw, i'm fairly new to django so might oversee/misunderstand simple things...) – antiplex May 08 '13 at 14:50
an older [answer](http://stackoverflow.com/a/2551976/294930) suggests adding `'django.core.context_processors.request'` also for general access to request properties (the session-dict in the linked example)... btw, this [hint showing how to append values within settings instead of overwriting](http://stackoverflow.com/a/9233283/294930) also seems worth mentioning in this context ;) – antiplex May 08 '13 at 15:00

Django admin template: Accessing request object in template

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