Re: how to deal with inherited template context variables?

2008-01-02 Thread Sam Lai
There's no reason, apart from the fact that I feel like I'm repeating myself in the views. I'm thinking template tags, because the template inheritance tree has to be specified in the templates. Therefore it is the only place to load necessary context variables without having to repeat the inherit

Re: how to deal with inherited template context variables?

2007-12-31 Thread Brian Costlow
Sam, Am I missing something, or is there a reason you don't just factor out the common bits into a function or set of functions in views.py, or a library it imports? For a couple of simple things we do on multiple sites (e.g. we do friendly names including Title and Suffix etc, from data in the

Re: how to deal with inherited template context variables?

2007-12-29 Thread Sam Lai
Thanks, Panos. Just took a quick look - the settings context processor is useful, but still requires explicit addition into each view using that template. The generic_content tags fit my examples, and probably for most use- cases, but I don't know... I'm not comfortable in putting logic that spec

Re: how to deal with inherited template context variables?

2007-12-29 Thread Panos Laganakos
Check out Django Template Utils[1], it will probably fit your needs. [1] http://code.google.com/p/django-template-utils/ On Dec 29, 5:42 pm, Sam Lai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks Alex and hedronist. I'm leaning towards creating a generic > template tag that loads template context processor

Re: how to deal with inherited template context variables?

2007-12-29 Thread Sam Lai
Thanks Alex and hedronist. I'm leaning towards creating a generic template tag that loads template context processors to do this (I don't have the complicated needs you had hedronist... as far as I know). I was just wondering if there was a 'best-practice' way of doing this; looks like creating t

Re: how to deal with inherited template context variables?

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Re: how to deal with inherited template context variables?

2007-12-28 Thread hedronist
> The other approach I've seen from James Bennett's blog, is to create a > template tag to retrieve model data generally. This works too, but it > feels like it's more legwork that should be required. We ran into this problem on a site we just launched. We tried several approaches but ultimately

Re: how to deal with inherited template context variables?

2007-12-28 Thread Alex Koshelev
I use inclusion template tags. It is very easy and following DRY principle. And tags may be cached independently. On 28 дек, 10:26, Sam Lai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > New django user here, so if this has been covered already, I'd > appreciate a pointer to the right thread. > > I've been plannin

how to deal with inherited template context variables?

2007-12-27 Thread Sam Lai
New django user here, so if this has been covered already, I'd appreciate a pointer to the right thread. I've been planning and building my app lately, and it's been quite a nice experience so far; django seems very well designed and architected. One thing's been annoying me though. I have a bas