Execute code in Django after response has been sent to the client

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The method I am going for at the moment uses a subclass of HttpResponse:

from django.template import loader
from django.http import HttpResponse

# use custom response class to override HttpResponse.close()
class LogSuccessResponse(HttpResponse):

    def close(self):
        super(LogSuccessResponse, self).close()
        # do whatever you want, this is the last codepoint in request handling
        if self.status_code == 200:
            print('HttpResponse successful: %s' % self.status_code)

# this would be the view definition
def logging_view(request):
    response = LogSuccessResponse('Hello World', mimetype="text/plain")
    return response

By reading the Django code I am very much convinced that HttpResponse.close() is the latest point to inject code into the request handling. I am not sure if there really are error cases that are handled better by this method compared to the ones mentioned above, so I am leaving the question open for now.

The reasons I prefer this approach to the others mentioned in lazerscience’s answer are that it can be set up in the view alone and does not require middleware to be installed. Using the request_finished signal, on the other hand, wouldn’t allow me to access the response object.

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