Good point, thanks for your input. On Friday, June 29, 2012 12:51:09 PM UTC+2, bruno desthuilliers wrote: > > > > 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. >>> >>
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