Django - detect mobile device in views

django

Solution

IT's a dictionary, not a class.

Complete view:

def get_link(request):
    if 'iphone' in request.device['device']:
        app_store_link = settings.APP_STORE_LINK
        return HttpResponseRedirect(app_store_link)
    else:
        return HttpResponseRedirect('/')

Problem

I am already using a device detection (http://djangosnippets.org/snippets/2228/) in my templates and trying to also make it work in views, so i can redirect to the app store if a user comes from an iPhone. So I already had: ``` import re def mobile(request): device = {} ua = request.META.get('HTTP_USER_AGENT', '').lower() if ua.find("iphone") > 0: device['iphone'] = "iphone" + re.search("iphone os (\d)", ua).groups(0)[0] if ua.find("ipad") > 0: device['ipad'] = "ipad" if ua.find("android") > 0: device['android'] = "android" + re.search("android (\d\.\d)", ua).groups(0)[0].translate(None, '.') # spits out device names for CSS targeting, to be applied to <html> or <body>. device['classes'] = " ".join(v for (k,v) in device.items()) return {'device': device } ``` And then created a class in tools/middleware.py: ``` from tools.context_processor import mobile class detect_device(object): def process_request(self, request): device = mobile(request) request.device = device ``` Added the following to MIDDLEWARE_CLASSES in the settings.py: ``` 'tools.middleware.detect_device' ``` And in views.py I created: ``` def get_link(request): if request.device.iphone: app_store_link = settings.APP_STORE_LINK return HttpResponseRedirect(app_store_link) else: return HttpResponseRedirect('/') ``` But I am getting the error: 'dict' object has no attribute 'iphone'

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