Example of why mimerender should have some way of exposing HTTP response headers and status code to renderers.

mimerenderexample.py

#!/bin/env python2                                                              

from flask import Flask
from flask import json
from mimerender import FlaskMimeRender

app = Flask(__name__)
app.debug = True
app.testing = True
mimerender = FlaskMimeRender()

def render_json(*args, **kw):
    # Here, we would incorporate headers and status code into the keyword       
    # arguments so that the body of the response will have a JSON               
    # representation of them as well. However, they are not available to this   
    # function.                                                                 
    #                                                                           
    #     kw['status_code'] = status_code                                       
    #     kw.update(**headers)                                                  
    #     return json.dumps(kw)                                                 
    #                                                                           
    return json.dumps(kw)


@app.route('/')
@mimerender(default='json', json=render_json)
def index():
    data = dict(foo='bar')
    status = 201
    headers = dict(Location='baz')
    return data, status, headers


if __name__ == '__main__':
    app.run()