On Thursday, June 28, 2012 5:53:46 PM UTC+2, Bastian wrote: > > Well, I was curious to see if it worked with a context processor so I > tried and indeed it works. After all it's only returning an object or list > of objects in a dictionary. Now I don't know which method is the most > efficient. >
The context_processor will be called for each and every RequestContext (so for each and every view AND templatetag creating a RequestContext), so better to avoid anything "intensive" here. Also, it won't have access to the existing context - which may or not be a problem, but for something "my favorite books" (which really means : "the favorité books of request.user"), you can bet one day or another you will want to show "the favorite books of _another_ user", and this is something that won't work with a context processor. To make a long story short : use a custom template tag that will take the user as an argument. My 2 cents... > > On Thursday, June 28, 2012 2:11:37 PM UTC+2, Bastian wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> I don't know if this is possible or how to do it. I would like to write a >> sort of context processor where I pass an object to the template. I have >> always passed strings to these variables. Let's say I have a Book model and >> in a view I list the latest books I've added to the database. In the >> corresponding template I will then have an objects list with these objects. >> But I also want to be able to call a variable containing another list of >> objects, say my favorite books, without having to pass it explicitly from >> the view and being able to call it from any template. >> Can I do it with context processors, or anything else actually? >> >> Thanks. >> > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/django-users/-/6qFgwqrD--wJ. 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.
