What about giving each Model a render() function to render it's
contents against it's template and return the resulting string. You
could then do something like this in the Display template:
{% for e in elements %}
<p>{{ e.render }}</p>
{% endfor %}
A more MVC-friendly approach may be to render your Elements in the
Display view, and iterate through the resulting strings rather than
the objects.
-Robin
On Apr 24, 10:49 am, Jeremy Teale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'm struggling with the template system.
>
> I have a Display model. This model will render its elements, which are
> of different model types. They are of type Addressbook, Schedule,
> Whiteboard, and so on.
>
> I'm trying to figure out how I can loop in the Display template and
> call each element's respective template tag to render the snippet.
>
> For instance,
> {% for e in elements %}
> <p>{{ e.call_respective_model_rendering_function }}</p>
> {% endfor %}
>
> elements is a list of model objects of differing type
>
> I've been playing with inclusion tags, but what would be the proper
> way to determine the element's model type and then call the proper
> method?
>
> Here's an example of one of the inclusion tags I wrote to give a
> better idea of what I've been trying to do.
>
> @register.inclusion_tag('addressbook/display.html')
> def show_addressbook(addressbook):
> contacts = addressbook.contact_set.all()
> return {'name': addressbook.name, 'contacts': contacts}
>
> Can anyone help me, please?
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