I am readying your question and my answer again and I said something
silly. You should be able to do what you originally proposed
{{extend request.layout}} although I'd probably do {{extend
reponse.layout}} instead. I tried and both work for me (unless the app
is bytecode compiled). If the app is bytecode compiled dynamical
extend and imports are not supported.
Massimo
On Apr 16, 8:09 pm, Jonathan Lundell <jlund...@pobox.com> wrote:
> On Apr 16, 2010, at 5:13 PM, mdipierro wrote:
>
> > Not quite.
>
> > {{extend name}} without quote is supported by name has to be a
> > variable containing the name of the template. This allows to have
> > templates determined dynamically based on user for example.
>
> So instead of {{extend request.layout}}, what?
>
> Can I do:
>
> {{layout = request.layout}}
> {{extend layout}}
>
> ?
>
> Note that {{extend request.layout}} works fine in normal operation. It only
> breaks when I try to compile the app, because request isn't defined for the
> eval().
>
>
>
> > On Apr 16, 5:24 pm, Jonathan Lundell <jlund...@pobox.com> wrote:
> >> On Apr 16, 2010, at 2:11 PM, Jonathan Lundell wrote:
>
> >>> I have several questions regarding app compiles, but the first one is
> >>> this:
>
> >>> Error traceback
> >>> 1.
> >>> 2.
> >>> 3.
> >>> 4.
> >>> 5.
> >>> 6.
> >>> 7.
> >>> 8.
> >>> 9.
> >>> 10.
> >>> 11.
> >>> 12.
> >>> 13.
> >>> 14.
> >>> 15.
> >>> 16.
> >>> 17.
> >>> 18.
> >>> 19.
> >>> Traceback (most recent call last):
> >>> File "/Users/jlundell/VTC/vpeps-web2py/web2py/gluon/restricted.py",
> >>> line 173, in restricted
> >>> exec ccode in environment
> >>> File
> >>> "/Users/jlundell/VTC/vpeps-web2py/web2py/applications/admin/controllers/default.py",
> >>> line 1061, in <module>
> >>> File "/Users/jlundell/VTC/vpeps-web2py/web2py/gluon/globals.py", line
> >>> 96, in <lambda>
> >>> self._caller = lambda f: f()
> >>> File
> >>> "/Users/jlundell/VTC/vpeps-web2py/web2py/applications/admin/controllers/default.py",
> >>> line 213, in compile_app
> >>> c = app_compile(request.args[0], request)
> >>> File "/Users/jlundell/VTC/vpeps-web2py/web2py/gluon/admin.py", line
> >>> 141, in app_compile
> >>> compile_application(folder)
> >>> File "/Users/jlundell/VTC/vpeps-web2py/web2py/gluon/compileapp.py",
> >>> line 520, in compile_application
> >>> compile_views(folder)
> >>> File "/Users/jlundell/VTC/vpeps-web2py/web2py/gluon/compileapp.py",
> >>> line 293, in compile_views
> >>> data = parse_template(file, path)
> >>> File "/Users/jlundell/VTC/vpeps-web2py/web2py/gluon/template.py", line
> >>> 139, in parse_template
> >>> t = os.path.join(path, eval(match.group('name'), context))
> >>> File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
> >>> NameError: name 'request' is not defined
> >>> The match in question is presumably {{extend request.layout}}, right?
>
> >> OK, that's what I changed. Because I was experimenting with layouts, I
> >> changed {{extend 'layout.html'}} to {{extend request.layout}}, which I
> >> assumed would work because request appears to be defined in views. But
> >> it's not defined in the context of the extend logic's eval().
>
> >> It seems like a reasonable thing to be able to do....
>
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