Where to place the call to a external API that has a dependency on a Model?
This sounds like it should be done in a View, because then you will be returning to a template with all the required context.
Suppose I have a Django app named "blog".
There's a model called Post and I have an external API call that returns the list of the most popular posts in a given time, e.g., the Google Analytics API.
My question is: Where is the expected place that I should place the code that makes the call to the external API, parses the id from each post, query the database and sort the list of models accordingly?
I don't think that it should live in the Manager or in a templatetag. Any tips or suggestions?
Thanks in advance!
EDIT: The desired result might be need in several places across the project, so if I place the code in view, I'll have duplication.