On Sunday, March 20, 2011 9:57:04 PM UTC, Turner wrote: > > I'm working on a custom tag to which I would like to be able to pass > template variables and filters. I found > <code>Variable(value).resolve(context)</code> in the Django source. I > have a couple of questions: > > You don't need to look at the code, this is explicitly documented: http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.2/howto/custom-template-tags/#passing-template-variables-to-the-tag
> 1) Is it safe to use <code>Variable()</code>? That is, is it part of > the public API? Not having visibility modifiers makes it a bit > difficult to tell. > Yes, since it is documented. > 2) Variable.resolve() works fine for, well, resolving a variable, but > doesn't work with filters. That is, if I pass to my tag > <code>some.context.variable|some_filter</code>, the tag will throw up > on the last bit, saying that it can't find an attribute/key/method > called "variable|some_filter". Is there an easy way I can have my tag > apply any filters to the value passed in? AFAIK that should just work. The `with` tag, for example, works fine with arguments that include filters. -- DR. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en.
