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Yobmod
Yobmod

Reputation: 405

Render django template as html file

I need to move a django project to to a php server, and i want to keep as much of the front-end as possible. Is there an easy way to render the templates into un-tagged HTML files and deposit them into a "template_root" as with static and media files?

Or at least have a view do the render on page load and save the resulting html to a file? (just for dev!)

i'm not concerned about the dynamic data from the views, just don't want to rewrite all the "extends" and "includes" and "staticfiles" or custom template tags

Upvotes: 1

Views: 2009

Answers (1)

Yobmod
Yobmod

Reputation: 405

I came up with a way to do this on a per View bases, using Django's render_to_string:

from django.template.loader import render_to_string
from django.views.generic import View
from django.shortcuts import render
from django.conf import settings

def homepage(request):
    context = {}
    template_name = "main/homepage.html"
    if settings.DEBUG == True:
        if "/" in template_name and template_name.endswith('.html'):
            filename = template_name[(template_name.find("/")+1):len(template_name)-len(".html")] + "_flat.html"
        elif template_name.endswith('.html'):
            filename = template_name[:len(template_name)-len(".html")] + "_flat.html"
        else:
            raise ValueError("The template name could not be parsed or is in a subfolder")
        #print(filename)
        html_string = render_to_string(template_name, context)
        #print(html_string)
        filepath = "../templates_cdn/" + filename
        print(filepath)
        f = open(filepath, 'w+')
        f.write(html_string)
        f.close()
    return render(request, template_name, context)

I tried making it as generic as possible, so i can add it to any view. I've used it to write a view that calls all templates iteratively and converts them all too, so is closer to "collectstatic" functionality

I don't know how to get the template_name from the render args, so i can just make it a function to re-use. Might be easier as a class-based-view mixin?

Upvotes: 1

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