Using Django template tags, I am trying to check if an object Boolean field that I passed to the template (using python) is True.
If I print the object on the page I see the value True/False:
<p>{{ obj.bool }}</p>
I've tried:
{% if {{ obj.bool }} == True %}
HELLO
{% endif %}
Which raises a syntax error
Could not parse the remainder: '{{' from '{{'
And:
{% if '{{ obj.bool }}' == 'True' %}
<p>HELLO</p>
{% endif %}
Gives me nothing...?
You dont need {{}} inside tag, just use:
{% if obj.bool %}
How make a a conditional statement out of a Django Template Tag?
from django import template
from django.contrib.auth.models import User, Group
register = template.Library()
#register.simple_tag
def is_designer(user_id):
try:
group = Group.objects.get(
name = "Designer",
user = user_id
)
return True
except Group.DoesNotExist:
return False
This appears True or False in my template which is correct:
{% is_designer user.id %}
However these gives me an error "Unused 'user.id' at end of if expression.":
{% if is_designer user.id == True %} Yes {% endif %}
{% if is_designer user.id %} Yes {% endif %}
If you made that into an assignment tag, you could do something like
{% is_designer user.id as is_user_designer %}
{% if is_user_designer == True %} Yes {% endif %}
{% if is_user_designer %} Yes {% endif %}
Note: As of Django 1.9, assignment tags are deprecated and simple tags can store values now. See the deprecation notice in the 1.9 docs https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.9/howto/custom-template-tags/#assignment-tags
How about this one:
{% is_designer user.id as is_user_designer %}
{{ is_user_designer|yesno:"Yes," }}
got a question here.
I have the following
{% if form.tpl.yes_no_required == True %}
<!-- path 1 -->
{% else %}
{% if form.tpl.yes_no_required == False %}
<!-- path 2 -->
{% endif %}
{% endif %}
The value for form.tpl.yes_no_required is None, but I was routed to path 2. Can anyone please explain why is this so? EDIT: if the value is none, i do not want it display anything.
You can't use the template language to test against what you think are constants, the parser is actually testing 2 "literals".
The parser tests for 2 literals with names 'None' and 'False'.
When parser tries to resolve these in the context a VariableDoesNotExist exception is thrown and both objects resolve to the python value None
and None == None.
from django.template import Context, Template
t = Template("{% if None == False %} not what you think {% endif %}")
c = Context({"foo": foo() })
prints u' not what you think '
c = Context({'None':None})
t.render(c)
prints u' not what you think '
c = Context({'None':None, 'False':False})
t.render(c)
prints u''
None != False None != True also ...
do some things like this for none item
{% if form.tpl.yes_no_required %}
<!-- path 1 -->
{% else %}
{% if not form.tpl.yes_no_required %}
<!-- path 2 -->
{% endif %}
{% endif %}
How do I check if a variable is False using Django template syntax?
{% if myvar == False %}
Doesn't seem to work.
Note that I very specifically want to check if it has the Python value False. This variable could be an empty array too, which is not what I want to check for.
For posterity, I have a few NullBooleanFields and here's what I do:
To check if it's True:
{% if variable %}True{% endif %}
To check if it's False (note this works because there's only 3 values -- True/False/None):
{% if variable != None %}False{% endif %}
To check if it's None:
{% if variable == None %}None{% endif %}
I'm not sure why, but I can't do variable == False, but I can do variable == None.
Django 1.10 (release notes) added the is and is not comparison operators to the if tag. This change makes identity testing in a template pretty straightforward.
In[2]: from django.template import Context, Template
In[3]: context = Context({"somevar": False, "zero": 0})
In[4]: compare_false = Template("{% if somevar is False %}is false{% endif %}")
In[5]: compare_false.render(context)
Out[5]: u'is false'
In[6]: compare_zero = Template("{% if zero is not False %}not false{% endif %}")
In[7]: compare_zero.render(context)
Out[7]: u'not false'
If You are using an older Django then as of version 1.5 (release notes) the template engine interprets True, False and None as the corresponding Python objects.
In[2]: from django.template import Context, Template
In[3]: context = Context({"is_true": True, "is_false": False,
"is_none": None, "zero": 0})
In[4]: compare_true = Template("{% if is_true == True %}true{% endif %}")
In[5]: compare_true.render(context)
Out[5]: u'true'
In[6]: compare_false = Template("{% if is_false == False %}false{% endif %}")
In[7]: compare_false.render(context)
Out[7]: u'false'
In[8]: compare_none = Template("{% if is_none == None %}none{% endif %}")
In[9]: compare_none.render(context)
Out[9]: u'none'
Although it does not work the way one might expect.
In[10]: compare_zero = Template("{% if zero == False %}0 == False{% endif %}")
In[11]: compare_zero.render(context)
Out[11]: u'0 == False'
I think this will work for you:
{% if not myvar %}
You could write a custom template filter to do this in a half-dozen lines of code:
from django.template import Library
register = Library()
#register.filter
def is_false(arg):
return arg is False
Then in your template:
{% if myvar|is_false %}...{% endif %}
Of course, you could make that template tag much more generic... but this suits your needs specifically ;-)
In old version you can only use the ifequal or ifnotequal
{% ifequal YourVariable ExpectValue %}
# Do something here.
{% endifequal %}
Example:
{% ifequal userid 1 %}
Hello No.1
{% endifequal %}
{% ifnotequal username 'django' %}
You are not django!
{% else %}
Hi django!
{% endifnotequal %}
As in the if tag, an {% else %} clause is optional.
The arguments can be hard-coded strings, so the following is valid:
{% ifequal user.username "adrian" %}
...
{% endifequal %}
An alternative to the ifequal tag is to use the if tag and the == operator.
ifnotequal
Just like ifequal, except it tests that the two arguments are not equal.
An alternative to the ifnotequal tag is to use the if tag and the != operator.
However, now we can use if/else easily
{% if somevar >= 1 %}
{% endif %}
{% if "bc" in "abcdef" %}
This appears since "bc" is a substring of "abcdef"
{% endif %}
Complex expressions
All of the above can be combined to form complex expressions. For such expressions, it can be important to know how the operators are grouped when the expression is evaluated - that is, the precedence rules. The precedence of the operators, from lowest to highest, is as follows:
or
and
not
in
==, !=, <, >, <=, >=
More detail
https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/templates/builtins/
Just ran into this again (certain I had before and came up with a less-than-satisfying solution).
For a tri-state boolean semantic (for example, using models.NullBooleanField), this works well:
{% if test.passed|lower == 'false' %} ... {% endif %}
Or if you prefer getting excited over the whole thing...
{% if test.passed|upper == 'FALSE' %} ... {% endif %}
Either way, this handles the special condition where you don't care about the None (evaluating to False in the if block) or True case.
I have had this issue before, which I solved by nested if statements first checking for none type separately.
{% if object.some_bool == None %}Empty
{% else %}{% if not object.some_bool %}False{% else %}True{% endif %}{% endif %}
If you only want to test if its false, then just
{% if some_bool == None %}{% else %}{% if not some_bool %}False{% endif %}{% endif %}
EDIT: This seems to work.
{% if 0 == a|length %}Zero-length array{% else %}{% if a == None %}None type{% else %}{% if not a %}False type{% else %}True-type {% endif %}{% endif %}{% endif %}
Now zero-length arrays are recognized as such; None types as None types; falses as False; Trues as trues; strings/arrays above length 0 as true.
You could also include in the Context a variable false_list = [False,] and then do
{% if some_bool in false_list %}False {% endif %}
Look at the yesno helper
Eg:
{{ myValue|yesno:"itwasTrue,itWasFalse,itWasNone" }}
I've just come up with the following which is looking good in Django 1.8
Try this instead of value is not False:
if value|stringformat:'r' != 'False'
Try this instead of value is True:
if value|stringformat:'r' == 'True'
unless you've been really messing with repr methods to make value look like a boolean I reckon this should give you a firm enough assurance that value is True or False.
This is far easier to check in Python (i.e. your view code) than in the template, because the Python code is simply:
myvar is False
Illustrating:
>>> False is False
True
>>> None is False
False
>>> [] is False
False
The problem at the template level is that the template if doesn't parse is (though it does parse in). Also, if you don't mind it, you could try to patch support for is into the template engine; base it on the code for ==.
you can use the int value of true and false
True = any int
False = zero
so, if we take an example:
{% if user.is_authenticated == 1 %}
do something
{% endif %}
this mean in python
if user.is_authenticated:
#do something
and
{% if user.is_authenticated == 0 %}
do something
{% endif %}
this mean in python
if not user.is_authenticated :
#do something
OR equal
if !(user.is_authenticated) :
#do something
OR equal
if user.is_authenticated == False :
#do something
It can be done:if you use "select" tag.
{% if service.active == 0 %} selected {% endif%}
Im getting strangest error in django so far:
'if' statement improperly formatted
Template that raises the error is this:
{% if diff >= 0 %}
<span class="pos">+{{ diff }}
{% else %}
<span class="neg">-{{ diff }}
{% endif %}
</span>
<span>{{ a }}</span>
view that has a and diff in context is this:
def add(request, kaart_id):
if request.is_ajax() and request.method == 'POST':
x = Kaart.objects.get(id=kaart_id)
x.pos += 1
x.save
x = Kaart.objects.get(id=kaart_id)
from django.utils import simplejson
diff = x.pos - x.neg
a = "(+1)"
context = { 'diff':diff, 'a':a }
return render_to_response('sum.html', context, context_instance=RequestContext(request))
It does not matter what equation i use in if, >, >=, ==.. they all raise the same error.
and as far as i can tell its all by the book: http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/templates/builtins/#id5
Alan.
Until Django 1.2 lands you are looking for "Smart If", a Django Template Tag.
A smarter {% if %} tag for django
templates.
While retaining current Django functionality, it also handles
equality,
greater than and less than operators. Some common case examples::
{% if articles|length >= 5 %}...{% endif %}
{% if "ifnotequal tag" != "beautiful" %}...{% endif %}
Arguments and operators must have a space between them, so
{% if 1>2 %} is not a valid smart if tag.
All supported operators are: or, and, in, = (or
==), !=, >, >=, < and <=.
As mentioned, you can't use operators in the {% if %} tag. It accepts only Boolean values (which you can AND, OR and NOT together.)
For simple equality, you can use the {% ifequal val1 val2 %} tag.
The reason is to push the "logic" out of the template and into the model layer. I.e. you should have a method on your model like so:
def positive_diff(self):
return self.diff >= 0
Then call that in your template:
{% if x.positive_diff %} ... {% endif %}
Or, you can set an extra variable in your view:
positive_diff = diff >= 0
You need to close each if statement with an endif
{% if var1 %}
{{ var1|safe }}
{% else %}
{% if var2 %}
{{ var2|safe }}
{% else %}
{% if var3 %}
{{ var3|safe }}
{% endif %}{% endif %}{% endif %}
The "smart if" tag was just added in the development version (that will eventually become 1.2).
If you're using a stable release (1.1.x or earlier) you won't be able to use those comparison operators in the "if" template tag.
Edit: look just above the == operator