Hi Reinout,
IMHO, Django's philosophy is that template designers are highly
skilled designers and not coders. To make it possible for designers
to edit the templates themselves, Django requires the developer to
create a simple context dictionary for designers to understand.
In all of my projects so far I didn't have the luxury of a designer
who'se fluent in Django templates and can write them by himself, but
still, I like Django for showing a clear way for designers and coders
to work together.
Benny
On Sep 1, 11:46 pm, Reinout van Rees <rein...@vanrees.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've got one big what's-the-design-decision/reason question regarding
> django 1.3's new class based views: why does django encourage a
> hand-crafted context dictionary instead of "just" passing the view
> object along?
>
> In zope/plone, I was used to having the view object available in the
> template as 'view'. The django equivalent would be to pass a context of
> {'view': self} to the template.
>
> All the attributes on the view class (well, object) would be available.
> Django prefers the template to stay simple and stupid: what could be
> better than encouraging to just add extra methods to the class if you
> want something special? Now you have to add the method *and* pass it
> along in the dictionary. Double work?
>
> Passing the view object to the template by default seems to me to be an
> absolute no-brainer. Class based views ought to mean you get the view
> object in your template, right? But Django doesn't do it. So... is there
> a specific reason for it?
>
> Reinout
>
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