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Casey Harrils
Casey Harrils

Reputation: 2973

Django Caching on front-end

I was working with 2 applications that are within a DJango project: "customer" and "vendors". Each application has a HTML file named "testindex.html".

Whenever I typed:

http://myhost/customer/basic_info

the correct page would show up

If I typed:

http://myhost/vendors/basic_info

the page from http://myhost/customer/basic_info would show up

I found out that it was due to caching (since both applications use "testindex.html"). So again, "testindex.html" is caching.

How can one get around this problem?

TIA

Details are listed below. I have the following views defined:

urls.py for the project

urlpatterns = [

... snip ...

url(r'^customer/', include('libmstr.customer.urls')),
url(r'^vendors/', include('libmstr.vendors.urls')),
]

views.py for customer

from django.shortcuts import render

def basic_info(request):
    return render(request, 'testindex.html', {})

views.py for vendors

from django.shortcuts import render

def basic_info(request):
    return render(request, 'testindex.html', {})

urls.py for customers

from django.conf.urls import url
from . import views

# list of templates
app_name = 'customer'

urlpatterns = [
url(r'^basic_info/$', views.basic_info, name='basic_info'),
]

urls.py for vendors

from django.conf.urls import url
from . import views

# list of templates
app_name = 'vendors'

urlpatterns = [
url(r'^basic_info/$', views.basic_info, name='basic_info'),
]

Upvotes: 1

Views: 273

Answers (1)

Alasdair
Alasdair

Reputation: 309099

It sounds like you have two templates, customers/templates/testindex.html and vendors/templates/testindex.html.

When you call render(request, 'testindex.html', {}), the app directories template loader searches the templates directory for each app in INSTALLED_APPS, and stops the first time it finds a match. If customers is above vendors in INSTALLED_APPS, then it will always use the customers template.

For this reason, Django recommends that you name your templates customers/templates/customers/testindex.html and vendors/templates/vendors/testindex.html, and change your views to use customers/testindex.html and vendors/testindex.html. This way you avoid clashes.

Upvotes: 2

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