On Dec 13, 6:28 pm, Malcolm Tredinnick <malc...@pointy-stick.com>
wrote:
> On Sat, 2008-12-13 at 18:13 -0800, ptone wrote:
>
> [...]
>
> > So was modifying tutorial to use the app_directories loader
>
> > Had to take out the 'polls/' subdir part of the template path - that
> > made sense.
>
> No, you didn't have to do that. It's optional and, in this case, is the
> cause of your later problems.
>
> There's a conceptual thing to realise here: all of the
> <app_name>/template/ directories are merged into a single top-level
> namespace, when viewed from the perspective of the app_directories
> template loader. So if you put my_template.html into that directory for
> appA and are using another app that has the same template name in its
> template/ directory, you get a name collision and it's going to appear
> very random as to which template is loaded.
>
> So, it turns out to be useful practice to namespace the template
> hierarchy under the template/ directory for a lot of situations. Thus,
> <app_name>/template/<app_name>/* is not an uncommon layout to see.
OK, this clarifies things greatly. I'll mention that:
http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/templates/api/
Makes no reference to the <app_name>/template/<app_name>/* convention
in the section on app_dir loader, and in fact implies otherwise. It
might be worth adding something about the name space flattening to
that doc as well.
while polls/templates/polls/poll_detail.html seems a bit redundant,
I'm sure more often than not you won't have the appname==modelname
situation dominating the code.
Thank you Malcolm, I've only started digging, but I can tell that
you're responses in this group are tremendously valuable both to OP's
and lurkers alike.
-Preston
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