accept-types 0.1.0

accept-types helps your application respond to a HTTP request in a way that a client prefers. The Accept header of an HTTP request informs the server which MIME types the client is expecting back from this request, with weighting to indicate the most prefered. If your server can respond in multiple formats (e.g.: JSON, XML, HTML), the client can easily tell your server which is the prefered format without resorting to hacks like ‘&format=json’ on the end of query strings.

from accept_type import get_best_match

def get_the_info(request):
        info = gather_info()

        return_type = get_best_match(request.META.get('HTTP_ACCEPT'), ['text/html', 'application/xml', 'text/json'])

        if return_type == 'application/xml':
                return render_xml(info)

        elif return_type == 'text/json':
                return render_json(info)

        elif return_type == 'text/html':
                return render_html(info)

        elif return_type == None:
                return HttpResponse406()

>>> from accept_type import parse_header
>>> parse_header('text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8')
['text/html, weight 1', 'application/xhtml+xml, weight 1', 'application/xml, weight 0.9', '*/*, weight 0.8']

>>> from accept_type import AcceptableType
>>> type = AcceptableType('image/*;q=0.9')
AcceptableType
>>> type.mime_type
'image/*'
>>> type.weight
0.9
>>> type.matches('image/png')
True
>>> type.matches('text/html')
False