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Alex McLean
Alex McLean

Reputation: 2764

Inserting dates from django templates into url tag

I have this calendar app view that requires the current year and month, and is used across approximately 1/4 of the site so I was hoping to create a {% url %} for it that wouldn't required updating the context everywhere.

I inherit a template with a JS script containing the following:

var url = "{% url 'companies:deliverers:deliverer-calendar-view' pk=company.pk slug=company.slugged_name year=now 'Y' month=now 'M' %}"

I was hoping to plug the year and month kwargs by using the standard template tags, but this give be an error:

Don't mix *args and **kwargs in call to reverse()!

I also tried doing:

"{% url 'companies:deliverers:deliverer-calendar-view' pk=company.pk slug=company.slugged_name year=now'Y' month=now'M' %}"

But this gives me:

Could not parse the remainder: ''Y'' from 'now'Y''

Anyone have any suggestions?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 921

Answers (3)

Alex McLean
Alex McLean

Reputation: 2764

Taking @Lucas Moeskops logic into account, I was able to develop a better solution:

{% now "Y" as YEAR %}
{% now "m" as MONTH %}
var url = "{% url 'companies:deliverers:deliverer-calendar-view' pk=company.pk slug=company.slugged_name year=YEAR month=MONTH %}"

Using this method you never have to hack the context_data for a bunch of views... pretty nice :).

Upvotes: 1

Lucas Moeskops
Lucas Moeskops

Reputation: 5443

You need at least a date variable from the context. Then you can get away with:

{% with year=my_date|date:'Y' month=my_date|date:'M' %}
  {% url 'companies:deliverers:deliverer-calendar-view' pk=company.pk slug=company.slugged_name year=year month=month %}
{% endwith %}

Upvotes: 1

user2466766
user2466766

Reputation: 195

I think you need to import datetime and do datetime.now()... You can pass that to a view through the context.

Upvotes: 0

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