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Garfonzo
Garfonzo

Reputation: 3966

Django - manually build HttpResponse, but want to use a template too

When returning an HttpResponse object with render_to_response you can provide a template and it will use that template and fill in all the {{ variables }} you've set within your template.

If I want to build my HttpResponse object manually, is it possible to still use one of my templates in my template directory?

Upvotes: 5

Views: 5994

Answers (2)

falsetru
falsetru

Reputation: 369064

Using render_to_string, you will get rendered string. You can pass the returned string to the HttpResponse.

from django.template.loader import render_to_string

...

rendered = render_to_string('my_template.html', {'foo': 'bar'})
response = HttpResponse(rendered)

Upvotes: 14

Ben
Ben

Reputation: 6767

Yes - you can use Django's template loader to load your template as a Template object, and then render it to a string, which you pass to HttpResponse:

from django.template import Template, Context
from django.template.loader import get_template

def my_view(request):
    temp = get_template('/path/to/template.html')
    result = temp.render(Context({'context': 'here'})
    return HttpResponse(result)

EDIT

Just noticed @falsetru's answer above - that's probably a better and shorter way!

Upvotes: 1

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