import cStringIO, zipfile from django.http import HttpResponse from django.template import loader def compress_kml(kml): "Returns compressed KMZ from the given KML string." kmz = cStringIO.StringIO() zf = zipfile.ZipFile(kmz, 'a', zipfile.ZIP_DEFLATED, False) zf.writestr('doc.kml', kml) zf.close() kmz.seek(0) return kmz.read() def render_to_kml(*args, **kwargs): "Renders the response as KML (using the correct MIME type)." return HttpResponse(loader.render_to_string(*args, **kwargs), mimetype='application/vnd.google-earth.kml+xml kml') def render_to_kmz(*args, **kwargs): """ Compresses the KML content and returns as KMZ (using the correct MIME type). """ return HttpResponse(compress_kml(loader.render_to_string(*args, **kwargs)), mimetype='application/vnd.google-earth.kmz') def render_to_text(*args, **kwargs): "Renders the response using the MIME type for plain text." return HttpResponse(loader.render_to_string(*args, **kwargs), mimetype='text/plain')