"This is the locale selecting middleware that will look at accept headers" from django.conf import settings from django.core.urlresolvers import (is_valid_path, get_resolver, LocaleRegexURLResolver) from django.http import HttpResponseRedirect from django.utils.cache import patch_vary_headers from django.utils import translation class LocaleMiddleware(object): """ This is a very simple middleware that parses a request and decides what translation object to install in the current thread context. This allows pages to be dynamically translated to the language the user desires (if the language is available, of course). """ def process_request(self, request): check_path = self.is_language_prefix_patterns_used() language = translation.get_language_from_request( request, check_path=check_path) translation.activate(language) request.LANGUAGE_CODE = translation.get_language() def process_response(self, request, response): language = translation.get_language() if (response.status_code == 404 and not translation.get_language_from_path(request.path_info) and self.is_language_prefix_patterns_used()): urlconf = getattr(request, 'urlconf', None) language_path = '/%s%s' % (language, request.path_info) path_valid = is_valid_path(language_path, urlconf) if (not path_valid and settings.APPEND_SLASH and not language_path.endswith('/')): path_valid = is_valid_path("%s/" % language_path, urlconf) if path_valid: language_url = "%s://%s/%s%s" % ( request.is_secure() and 'https' or 'http', request.get_host(), language, request.get_full_path()) return HttpResponseRedirect(language_url) translation.deactivate() patch_vary_headers(response, ('Accept-Language',)) if 'Content-Language' not in response: response['Content-Language'] = language return response def is_language_prefix_patterns_used(self): """ Returns `True` if the `LocaleRegexURLResolver` is used at root level of the urlpatterns, else it returns `False`. """ for url_pattern in get_resolver(None).url_patterns: if isinstance(url_pattern, LocaleRegexURLResolver): return True return False