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femi ogundayo
femi ogundayo

Reputation: 15

render_to_string() got multiple values for argument 'context_instance'

I am trying to pass the following argument to a render to response syntax in django but i keep getting the following error:

render_to_string() got multiple values for argument 'context_instance'

Tried different solutions but still not getting it right. Any help?

views.py:

@login_required

def articles(request, everyone=True):

    events = post.objects.filter()
    if request.user.is_authenticated():
        my_events = events.filter(user=request.user) 
        events = events.exclude(user=request.user)
        following = request.user.following_set.all().values_list('to_user', 
            flat=True)
    else:
        my_events = post.objects.none()
        following = None
    if not everyone:
        events = events.filter(user__in=following)

        args = {}
        args.update(csrf(request))
        args ['posts'] = post.objects.filter(user = request.user)
        args ['full_name'] = User.objects.get(username = request.user.username)
        args ['form'] = PostForm()
        args ['forms'] = CommentForm()
        args ['profile_picture'] = request.user.profile.profile_picture

        context = {
        'events': events,
        'my_events': my_events,
        'following': following,
    }


    return render_to_response('articles.html', args, context,
        context_instance = RequestContext(request))

Is there anything am doing wrong?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 2750

Answers (1)

canufeel
canufeel

Reputation: 893

Here is the render_to_string from the django source django.template.engine :

def render_to_string(self, template_name, dictionary=None, context_instance=None,
                         dirs=_dirs_undefined):

It gets called with (*args,**kwargs) passed from render_to_response() It is clear that your context argument conflicts with keyword argument assigned by you which is context_instance. You should only send one of those. Maybe you should put the data from context inside your args dictionary?

By the way you can look at the docs here: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/templates/api/#the-render-to-string-shortcut and here: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/topics/http/shortcuts/#render-to-response

to see the list of arguments each of this functions accepts.

Upvotes: 1

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