On Apr 14, 5:48 am, nai <chng.nai...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks for your help.
>
> I went with 2 views, 1 for the image and 1 for the html.
>
> On Apr 12, 2:06 pm, Sam Walters <mr.sam...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > I mis-read this... basically you have one view and in the template you
> > are rendering you put HTML:
>
> > <img src="/some/path/to/a/view" />
> > <img src="/some/path/to/a/view" />
>
> > so that path will call your other views which return content as
> > content_type='image/png' or whatever specific format you're using.
>
> > what i was suggesting is you could have:
>
> > <img src="/some/path/to/a/view/?foo=1" />
> > <img src="/some/path/to/a/view/?foo=2" />
> > <img src="/some/path/to/a/view/?foo=3" />
>
> > So in your urls.py file it would parameratize 'foo' and in your view
> > method you could produce different responses based on the parameter.
> > Eg: in an other view i have i can pass lat and long coords as params
> > and it would put a dot on the map based on where that lat/long points
> > to.
>
> > On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 2:19 PM, nai <chng.nai...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Actually, could you illustrate how you would go about using 2 views as
> > > well? Thanks!
>
> > > On Apr 11, 6:39 pm, Xavier Ordoquy <xordo...@linovia.com> wrote:
> > >> Le 11 avr. 2011 à 12:21, nai a écrit :
>
> > >> > This is the give example from Matplotlib for Django:
>
> > >> > def simple(request):
> > >> > import random
>
> > >> > from matplotlib.backends.backend_agg import FigureCanvasAgg as
> > >> > FigureCanvas
> > >> > from matplotlib.figure import Figure
> > >> > from matplotlib.dates import DateFormatter
>
> > >> > fig=Figure()
> > >> > ax=fig.add_subplot(111)
> > >> > x=[]
> > >> > y=[]
> > >> > now=datetime.datetime.now()
> > >> > delta=datetime.timedelta(days=1)
> > >> > for i in range(10):
> > >> > x.append(now)
> > >> > now+=delta
> > >> > y.append(random.randint(0, 1000))
> > >> > ax.plot_date(x, y, '-')
> > >> > ax.xaxis.set_major_formatter(DateFormatter('%Y-%m-%d'))
> > >> > fig.autofmt_xdate()
> > >> > canvas=FigureCanvas(fig)
> > >> > response=django.http.HttpResponse(content_type='image/png')
> > >> > canvas.print_png(response)
> > >> > return response
>
> > >> > Is there anyway I can return the image like this `return
> > >> > render_to_response('template.html', {'graph': <graph generated by
> > >> > matplotlib or some other graphing package>}`
>
> > >> Hi,
>
> > >> Is there any reasons why you couldn't have a view that would just render
> > >> the image and the other one that would have a img tag pointing to the
> > >> first view ?
> > >> It is possible to embed an image in the web page, but I'm sure it goes
> > >> against the best practices.
>
> > >> Regards,
> > >> Xavier.
Perhaps you could post your solution here, to help out others in
future?
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