Context Processors are not working with Jinja2 in Django - django

Question

Context Processors are not working with Jinja2(Ver 2.10) in Django(Ver 2.0.5). This is what i have done. Created a context processor as follows:
def test_con_proc(request):
return {
'test_con_proc': "Testing Context Processors",
}
And, called it in my template using this:
{{ test_con_proc }}
Also, added this to settings.py file like this:
TEMPLATES = [
{
'BACKEND': 'django.template.backends.jinja2.Jinja2',
'DIRS': [....)
],
'APP_DIRS': True,
'OPTIONS': {
'environment': '....jinja2.environment',
},
},
{
'BACKEND': 'django.template.backends.django.DjangoTemplates',
'DIRS': [.....],
'APP_DIRS': True,
'OPTIONS': {
'context_processors': [
'django.template.context_processors.debug',
'django.template.context_processors.request',
'django.contrib.auth.context_processors.auth',
'django.contrib.messages.context_processors.messages',
'dashboard.context_processors.test_con_proc',
],
},
},
]
So, What't the proper solution for resolving using context processors with Jinja2 in Django?

Answer 1

You need to install django-jinja then:
change: 'BACKEND': 'django.template.backends.jinja2.Jinja2',
to "BACKEND": "django_jinja.backend.Jinja2",
After that move your context processor to jinja OPTIONS['context_processors']
So your settings should look similar to this:
TEMPLATES = [
{
'BACKEND": "django_jinja.backend.Jinja2',
'DIRS': [.....],
"APP_DIRS": True,
"OPTIONS": {
"context_processors": [
'django.template.context_processors.debug',
'django.template.context_processors.request',
'django.contrib.auth.context_processors.auth',
'django.contrib.messages.context_processors.messages',
'dashboard.context_processors.test_con_proc',
]
}
},
]