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Jeremy
Jeremy

Reputation: 1835

Django pass variable context to custom filter

I need to know the HTML to pass the CONTENT of a variable into a DJANGO CUSTOM TAG

the code, for example, would be something like this:

{% for id,name in data %}
  {% customTag id name %}
{% endfor %}

I need this to pass the ACTUAL CONTENTS of id, and not just "id" (the literal string)

and the answer is NOT found at https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.7/howto/custom-template-tags/#passing-template-variables-to-the-tag like all the previous posts say

Upvotes: 1

Views: 2000

Answers (1)

Jeremy
Jeremy

Reputation: 1835

Well somebody posted this and then removed it... but it answered my question. The answer was to use the takes_context parameter.

I used a simple tag with this flag like in the example here https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.7/howto/custom-template-tags/#simple-tags

@register.simple_tag(takes_context=True)
def current_time(context, format_string):
  timezone = context['timezone']
  return your_get_current_time_method(timezone, format_string)

Upvotes: 1

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