Re: Adding context data to a TemplateView?

An additional point, if you want to be able to use the view more generically (be able to pass in custom context from your urls.py), I've done the following: class StaticPageView(TemplateView): context = None def get_context_data(self, **kwargs): context = super(StaticPageView,

Re: Adding context data to a TemplateView?

Roy, I agree with Fallen that a subclass of TemplateView is required here. I have used this technique often. Dan class MyTemplateView(TemplateView): template_name = 'my_template.html' def get_context_data(self, **kwargs): context = super(MyTemplateView,

Re: Adding context data to a TemplateView?

Take a look at https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.4/topics/generic-views-migration/#extra-context There's no way for provide an extra_context to a TemplateView. You need to subclass TemplateView and re-implement get_context_data in the way described in aforementioned topic. On Monday, April

Re: Adding context data to a TemplateView?

This should help you out with adding extra context to TemplateView http://godjango.com/15-class-based-views-part-1-templateview-and-redirectview/ Roy Smith wrote: I'm using a generic TemplateView (django-1.4), but I want to be able to add something to the context. Is that possible? The docs

Re: Adding context data to a TemplateView?

Oh, and an extra set of curly braces: url(r'^about$', TemplateView.as_view(template_name='legal_ipsum/about.html', {"extra_content":{"pagename":"about"}})), On Apr 22, 11:28 pm, Ejah wrote: > Quotes around extra_context > HTH > > On Apr 22, 11:20 pm, Roy Smith

Re: Adding context data to a TemplateView?

Quotes around extra_context HTH On Apr 22, 11:20 pm, Roy Smith wrote: > I'm using a generic TemplateView (django-1.4), but I want to be able to add > something to the context.  Is that possible? > > The docs >

Adding context data to a TemplateView?

I'm using a generic TemplateView (django-1.4), but I want to be able to add something to the context. Is that possible? The docs at https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.4/topics/generic-views/#adding-extra-context talk about "an extra optional parameter, extra_context", but I don't get what