It has been 2day i am trying to figure out how to do that. I am a novice so please give as detailed explanation as possible.
I am doing this in my views.py
dict1 = simplejson.dumps(dict1)
return render_to_response('main_page.html', {
'js_testsuite':testsuite_dict,
'js_testset':js_testset,
'dict1':dict1})
In main_page.html
{% if js_testsuite %}
<select id="testsuites" name="testsuite" onchange="setOptions(document.selection.testsuite.selectedIndex);">
{% for key, value in js_testsuite.items %}
<option value={{ value }} name="testsuite">{{ key }}</option>
{% endfor %}
</select>
{% endif %}
In setoptions.js, which contains the function setOptions(value), to which i am passing selected index of the select box, and using this value i have to set the second select box and the data for this select box has to come from the views.py given above.
Also, I tried doing
var value_from_django = {{ dict1 }};
what are the other things im missing. Could you please provide a detailed explanation on this. I had been trying this for 2 days.
Is there a way in which I can pass the value from django views to the javascript directly bypassing the django template?
Can I pass the information from django views to the html template and then to the javascript?
The javascript I am referring to is a simple javascript not jquery.
Thanks for your support,
Vinay
You cannot pass values to javascript bypassing the template, unless you use an ajax call to start a separate request or unless you do something very unusual like embedding the data in a response header (don't actually do this, it is not what response headers are for!). The response, which includes the header and the body (the body being the part generated by the template) is the sum total of the information your application provides to your client, so unless you generate an additional request and fetch an additional response with ajax, you have no other options.
If you don't want to do that, then your options for passing information to the javascript via the template are basically the following:
Using an inline tag, create properly formatted javascript dynamically via the templating system. The example line you have, var value_from_django = {{ dict1 }}; is essentially what I'm talking about here, except that I'm not sure you can pass a dict through from django to javascript like that, because django's text output of a dict in the template is unlikely to be exactly the correct formatting for a javascript variable declaration. So, instead you can...
Translate your data into JSON and put that into your template, and then process that with the javascript. (This is usually done with an ajax call, but there's nothing stopping you from injecting the JSON data into the initial template directly.)
Or populate your HTML with the data you want and then use javascript to locate the HTML tag containing the data and parse the data out.
If you are trying to pass simple variables like integers, it might be easiest to do it with the first or third options. If you are trying to pass a more complex data structure like a dictionary, you will probably be better off using JSON (that's what it's for!)
I would like to give you more detailed and concrete instructions, but for that you will need to post more detail about what exactly is going wrong with your current approach and what your desired functionality is.
By the way: if it is at all feasible to include jquery on this page and use that instead of trying to use basic javascript, you should do so. It will make your life much, much easier.
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I have a Django template file working with a passed value like the below.
{% include 'boutique/rating.html' with score=[I want to put value here] %}
When I usually put value into the template, I could easily do it by doing like the below.
{% for store in stores %}
{% include 'boutique/rating.html' with score=store.review_score %}
{% endfor %}
However, as I get into more complex templates, I need to assign the value to the score parameter in the include section through jQuery. Is there a way that I can acheive this through jQuery?
What you need to understand is this: The part of the template between {% and %} is interpreted by Django. It is processed entirely on the server. In other words, it never shows up in the browser, but gets replaced by some sort of standard HTML.
On the other hand, jQuery is a Javascript library and operates entirely in the browser -- it doesn't know anything about the server or Django.
So, to modify the included template with jQuery, you have to find out what HTML it renders to. You can probably do that by looking at the included template file. Then, treat that HTML the way you would any other part of the page for manipulation with jQuery.
I am using ajax data to pass info to my page, but I need to create some links that use data from the javascript to call a view, so the parameters usually passed when one does a {% url 'jobs:close' foo %}, for example, are not available at the time the template is rendered, but imported later through an ajax call. Obviously, this causes errors when the template is rendered.
Is there a way to keep the benefit of having reverse url lookups in such a situation, and dynamically get the URL in the template without passing foo, or do I need to hard code the URL in the template and paste the parameter on the end later?
Instead of getting 'foo' in ajax response, get the reverse url in ajax response and replace the DOM where you need the url.
After thinking about it, and looking at comments, I decided on the answer of adding a fake parameter and removing it afterwards. Since it will be removed when the form is rendered, the parameter doesn't much matter. I chose 1.
So, in my template, I put {% url 'jobs:close' '1' %}. Then in my javascript, as I call the form in a modal, I use jquery to find the form. It makes it easy just to use the same URL again, so here it is:
var modal = $("#modal");
var closeUrl = '{% url 'jobs:close' '1' %}';
closeUrl = closeUrl.substring(0, closeUrl.length - 2) + event.data.id + /;
modal.find("#close-job").attr('action', closeUrl);
event.data.id is where I am storing the job ID that I really need.
It isn't as slick as I was looking for, but it works well.
So, I've been editing a website and have many JavaScript functions that utilize the Contexts that the views.py file passes to the page. Until now, these functions have been contained in the base.html file and so have been loaded onto every page directly. However, to make things cleaner, I copy and pasted all the functions to an external .js file. Now, rather than use the contexts, the functions consider them to be literal strings.
Example:
$('#title').text('{{ event.name }}');
The above line will actually set the text of the element to say "{{ event.name }}" rather than the name of the event. Any ideas on how to fix this? I really don't want to keep these functions in the base file where they can be seen by anyone who inspects the page source.
It doesn't matter if you put your javascript functions in an external file or in your base.html it would still get exposed to the user. Only a minification of the file would actually help to trick the user from seeing the actual values but with javascript all your code is public.
Why you're having this problem is because when you rendered the javascript inline (in your base.html) you had access to the template context.
This is no longer the case and the Django template engine doesn't interpolate your {{ event.name }} anymore.
The problem you're facing as well is a good one. You should never mix and match javascript with Djangos template language or any template language for that matter and the only way of fixing it is to
a) start pulling the values from the DOM ie. render a proper DOM
b) to start to fetch the values from the server, traditionally using AJAX.
And the smallest example that I can muster at the moment is below:
Your view:
def my_django_view(request):
return HttpResponse(json.dumps({'meaningoflife':42}), mimetype='application/json')
Your HTML
<input type="hidden" id="myMeaning" value="{{ meaningoflife }}" />
Your javascript
var meaning = document.querySelector('#myMeaning').value;
alert(meaning); //should alert 42.
In your view you return some form of render_to_response which takes a template argument and a context argument. What the render_to_response function does is read your template, and replace all {{ placeholders }} with the values passed via the context dictionary.
Templates are essentially a complex version of this
"""
<h1>{{ person.name }}</h1>
<p>{{ person.phone_number }}</p>
""".format(person)
The problem is the templating engine does not know files specified by a scripts src attribute is actually a Django template. To fix this don't use the script src attribute. Instead do something like this.
<!--base.html-->
<h1>Site Title</h1>
<p>Some content</p>
<script>
{% include 'jsfile.js' %}
</script>
Using the include statement should do the trick.
I'm trying to find a way to dynamically set default form values. So for example, if I add a facebook login feature on my webpage, and I can get his first name and last name from what the facebook javascript returns, I want to be able to set these values as the new "value" parameter in the given form. (basically so I'm able to put the user in my database)
I was hoping that there is some sort of
{{ form.firstname.default = Javascript.return.firstname }}
that I can insert into a template but there isn't...
Any ideas? Thank you.
Edit;; Maybe it would be better to first pass in the information into a views.py? But how would I do this? I am just considering hand writing the inputs out in the javascript field, which would be annoying...
You can set the default value of a template variable:
{{ form.firstname|default:Javascript.return.firstname }}
assuming that {{ Javascript.return.firstname }} is valid in that template context.
The code generated by Django is all server-side, its templates can't use anything which isn't available when the page is loaded. You need to use javascript to set the value.
For example, if your form looks like this:
<form id="login">
<input name="firstname" />
</form>
You could use this javascript (assuming you're using jQuery):
// Do the facebook login, set the var fname to the first name, then:
$('#login [name=firstname]').val(fname);
I've started using Django and am going right to generic views. Great architecture! Well, the documents are great, but for the absolute beginner it is a bit like unix docs, where they make the most sense when you already know what you're doing. I've looked about and cannot find this specifically, which is, how do you set up an object_list template so that you can click on an entry in the rendered screen and get the object_detail?
The following is working. The reason I'm asking is to see if I am taking a reasonable route or is there some better, more Djangoish way to do this?
I've got a model which has a unicode defined so that I can identify my database entries in a human readable form. I want to click on a link in the object_list generated page to get to the object_detail page. I understand that a good way to do this is to create a system where the url for the detail looks like http://www.example.com/xxx/5/ which would call up the detail page for row 5 in the database. So, I just came up with the following, and my question is am I on the right track?
I made a template page for the list view that contains the following:
<ul>
{% for aninpatient in object_list %}
<li><a href='/inpatient-detail/{{ aninpatient.id }}/'>{{ aninpatient }}</a></li>
{% endfor %}
</ul>
Here, object_list comes from the list_detail.object_list generic view. The for loop steps through the object list object_list. In each line I create an anchor in html that references the desired href, "/inpatient-detail/nn/", where nn is the id field of each of the rows in the database table. The displayed link is the unicode string which is therefore a clickable link. I've set up templates and this works just fine.
So, am I going in the right direction? It looks like it will be straightforward to extend this to be able to put edit and delete links in the template as well.
Is there a generic view that takes advantage of the model to create the detail page? I used ModelForm helper from django.forms to make the form object, which was great for creating the input form (with automatic validation! wow that was cool!), so is there something like that for creating the detail view page?
Steve
If you're on django < 1.3 then what you are doing is basically perfect. Those generic views are quite good for quickly creating pages. If you're on django 1.3 you'll want to use the class based generic views. Once you get a handle on those they are are crazy good.
Only note I have is that you should use {% url %} tags in your templates instead of hardcoding urls. In your urls.conf file(s) define named urls like:
url('inpatient-detail/(?P<inpatient_id>\d+)/$', 'your_view', name='inpatient_detail')
and in your template (for django < 1.3):
...
In 1.3 a new url tag is available that improves life even more.