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content/django-view-decorator.md

@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 Title: Bringing Locality of Behaviour to Django Views and URLs
-Date: 2023-06-20
+Date: 2023-06-21
 Status: hidden
 Tags: django, views, locality-of-behaviour
 Slug: bringing-locality-of-behaviour-to-django-views-and-urls
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ Given a very simple view:
     :::python
     # views.py
     def foo(request: HttpRequest) -> HttpResponse:
-        return "bar"
+        return HttpResponse("foo")
 
 It is not apparent how to access the view with HTTP. To see what URL the view is tied to we have to look at urls.py:
 
@@ -80,7 +80,7 @@ Then we can use the `view` decorator like so (we dive deeper in what the decorat
 
     @view(paths="/foo/", name="foo")
     def foo(request: HttpRequest) -> HttpResponse:
-        return "bar"
+        return HttpResponse("foo")
 
 We now have information about how the view is to be accessed right there next to the view itself.
 
@@ -185,11 +185,11 @@ This is where the aptly named `namespaced_decorator_factory` comes into the pict
 
     @foo_view(paths="", name="list")
     def foo_list(request: HttpRequest) -> HttpResponse:
-        return "foo list"
+        return HttpResponse("foo list")
 
     @foo_view(paths="<int:id>", name="detail")
     def foo_detail(request: HttpRequest, id: int) -> HttpResponse:
-        return "foo detail"
+        return HttpResponse("foo detail")
 
 
 By calling `namespaced_decorator_factory` we get a specialised decorator for our namespace and we can even provide it with a path which will be prepended to all URLs registered using it.
@@ -211,7 +211,7 @@ This opens up a quite nifty possibility of injecting URLs into a namespace from
         name="custom-view"
     )
     def custom_view(request: HttpRequest) -> HttpResponse:
-        return "I'm in another namespace"
+        return HttpResponse("I'm in another namespace")
 
 
 Now we can treat `custom_view` as if it was a part of the `app_1` namespace. Ie. `reverse("app_1:custom-view")` would give us `app_1/my-custom-view/`. Neat!