Hi Folks
Here is the problem, we have some pages that don't contain any
content, but rather layout the blocks which are served by other views.
Extending the template and overriding some blocks is not a solution,
because there are many unrelated blocks, that can not be rendered by a
single view.
Naturally I would expect some {% dispatch "/some/path/here" %} tag,
such that when template is being processed, the tag will issue
recursive request and will be replaced by obtained content. The tag
should be able to replace the base template of called view, so the
header/footer and other markup will not be rendered if view is called
as a block.
Unfortunately there is no such tag. So my question is: how to give the
control to independent blocks. The idea is:
- current request is being processed by some view, which knows how
to fetch only its own content
- the designer may want to add other content/block, totally
unrelated to current request, for example a poll/banner/menu etc.
- the block needs to be served by some view because there database
fetch is needed along other processing. So simple include of a
template is not a solution. Fetching all the content within the top-
most view isn't a solution because the block can be used on many
places.
That is the reason why this should be implemented as recursive call,
such that the block-view will not even know it is being called as a
block and will simply render the content. Of course in real situation
the view still needs to know it is being called as a block, such that
more simplistic templates may be used.
Please explain what is the django way and how would you solve this,
maybe I'm digging in totally wrong direction.
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