On Friday, 22 November 2013 13:13:46 UTC, Timothy W. Cook wrote:
>
> Lucas,
>
> On Fri, Nov 22, 2013 at 9:58 AM, Lucas Magnum
> <lucasm...@gmail.com<javascript:>>
> wrote:
> > Timothy,
> > The "get_context_data" is called in get method, once you override it
> > "get_context_data" isn't called anymore.
> >
>
> Right. So my thought process was that if I override it and place
> additional information there it would be available in the template.
> Obviously my thinking is incorrect, but where?
>
Lucas means that by overriding get(), you've removed the place where
`get_context_data` is originally called. You could certainly do it within
your own `get()` function, simply with `context = self.get_context_data()`,
but you might as well keep it within `get()` as you do below.
> So how do I add variables to the context so that I can display their
> value in the template?
>
> In this case I want to get the title of the paper and display it in
> the template. If I do this in get():
>
> def get(self, request, *args, **kwargs):
> paper = Paper.objects.filter(id=kwargs['pk'])
> kwargs['title'] = paper[0].title
> print('Title: ',kwargs['title'])
> form = self.form_class(initial=self.initial)
> return render(request, self.template_name, {'form': form})
>
> IT prints it to the terminal okay. But (using DjDT) I do not see
> where 'title' was added to kwargs. Not do I see it in the template
> context.
>
> Any idea what I am missing or how to do this?
>
You've added it to kwargs, but you haven't passed kwargs as the template
context - you've simply hard-coded that to `{'form': form}`.
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