wow, just what I wasl ooking for
On Friday, July 8, 2011 at 7:14:48 PM UTC+3, Kernc wrote:
>
> OMG, setting response.view does it for me 110%!
> Confident in the ease of use of web2py, I swear I tried this the very
> first. Maybe I mistyped it to response.view = 'article.html' or
> request.view, and then just turned to alternatives. Anyway, now it works!
> :-D
>
> I also understand your explanation, except one thing: if I have an
> {{include}} inside a {{block}} as a default value (both these statements
> are template, non-python statements), and that default is overridden, and
> since {{block}} somewhat introduces conditioning, the inner {{include}}
> statement need-not be expanded, so {{block some}}{{include
> article}}{{end}}, with some block overridden, shouldn't throw error on
> article variable not set. I think.
>
> Anyway, taking note of your comment regarding not compiled views, I now
> see I am doing the whole thing wrong, so I'm switching to {{extends}} and
> {{blocks}} instead (no more need for variable includes). response.view
> saves the day! :-)
>
> Thank you and KUGW!
>
> On Fri, Jul 8, 2011 at 4:26 PM, Anthony <abas...@gmail.com <javascript:>>
> wrote:
>
>> First, if you want to use a particular view, you can always explicitly
>> assign response.view:
>>
>> def about():
>> response.view='default/article.html' # This view will be used instead
>> of 'default/about.html'.
>> # more code
>> return dict(...)
>>
>> Also, note that the {{include}} statement is not a Python statement -- it
>> is processed by the template engine before everything is converted to
>> Python. So, if you have an {{include 'someview.html'}} inside an if
>> statement, the 'someview.html' template will still be included in the
>> assembled Python code, though it will only be executed conditionally (based
>> on the condition of the if statement). Also, because of this, although you
>> may use variables in your {{include}} statements, as you have, usage of
>> variables prevents bytecode compiling of the views. The reason is that the
>> included views have to be determined at compile time, but the value of the
>> variables is not known until run time.
>>
>> In the places where you are getting the error about 'article' not being
>> defined, I assume your controller action is not actually returning a
>> variable called 'article' to the view. If you need to conditionally test
>> whether a particular variable is available in a view, you can do {{if
>> 'article' in response._vars:}} or {{if 'article' in globals():}}.
>>
>> Anthony
>>
>>
>> On Friday, July 8, 2011 2:07:16 AM UTC-4, Kernc wrote:
>>
>>> Ok, so this is my setup:
>>>
>>> I have article() function inside default controller, which obtains
>>> article title in request.args, puts ('articles/'+str(request.args[0])
>>> +'.html') into returned dict(article=...), and serves appropriate
>>> article's HTML from article.html with
>>>
>>> <!-- various common tags along with <body> above and </html> below...
>>> -->
>>> <article>
>>> {{include article}}<!-- includes the right article/with-some-
>>> title.html -->
>>> </article>
>>> <!-- ... -->
>>>
>>> For example, if I access http://domain/article/with-some-title, it
>>> renders views/articles/with-some-title.html.
>>> I like that. :-)
>>>
>>> But then I have /about URL, which calls about() function inside
>>> default controller, but which I would like to use the same article
>>> template from article.html, i.e. to follow DRY.
>>>
>>> So I have tried to put my content in about.html in a variable
>>> {{article_content = MARKMIN('About us...')}} and then {{include}}
>>> modified article.html
>>>
>>> <article>
>>> {{if article_content:}}{{=article_content}}{{pass}}{{else}}{{include
>>> article}}{{pass}}
>>> </article>
>>>
>>> (Besides {{if article_content:}} I tried with try-except too. Neither
>>> worked.)
>>> When accessing /about, the ticket told me the error was in undefined
>>> 'article' variable in the include expression.
>>>
>>> So I tried it another way, by defining block with default content in
>>> article.html
>>>
>>> {{block article_content}}{{include article}}{{end}}
>>>
>>> and extending article.html in about.html
>>>
>>> {{extend 'article.html'}}{{block article_content}}{{=MARKMIN('About
>>> us...')}}{{end}}
>>>
>>> As per documentation, default value inside {{block}} (in my case
>>> '{{include article}}') should be replaced with specified value (in
>>> my case {{=MARKMIN(...)}}). But again, the ticket reports the same
>>> error:
>>>
>>> ...
>>> File "/home/****/web2py/gluon/template.py", line 449, in include
>>> text = self._get_file_text(filename)
>>> File "/home/****/web2py/gluon/template.py", line 430, in
>>> _get_file_text
>>> filename = eval(filename, self.context)
>>> File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
>>> NameError: name 'article' is not defined
>>>
>>> To avoid using {{include}}, the next thing I am about to try is:
>>>
>>> {{block article_contents}}{{if article:}}{{=open(article).read()}}
>>> {{pass}}{{end}}
>>>
>>> but this way I have to maintain os.getcwd() and annote the article
>>> with proper path to my views. I don't know how stable this is.
>>>
>>> Inexperienced as I am, I'm assuming it's possible I'm doing something
>>> horribly wrong. What is that? :-)
>>>
>>> TL;DR: The templating system counter-intuitively gives unconditional
>>> priority to {{include}} expressions, which it evaluates first.
>>>
>>> Oh, and if you can please tell me how I can make the about() function
>>> to use the article.html view instead of default about.html view, that
>>> would solve my DRY problem as well, I suppose. :-)
>>>
>>> Thanks!
>>
>>
>
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