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Reputation:

How to return an HTML file in Django that is NOT a template?

I have a particular HTML file that I want to show in Django. This file is generated externally and will not use Django template syntax. In fact, it includes some syntax that confuses the Django template generator (like {{ #something }}) and makes it return an error.

What is the best way to return this particular HTML page in a way that does not trigger the template syntax to be used? I use this now, and it works, but is this the recommended way? Any drawbacks?

def annual_report(request):
    from django.http import HttpResponse
    html_content = open("templates/reports/annualreport.html")
    return HttpResponse(html_content)

Upvotes: 0

Views: 957

Answers (1)

Charnel
Charnel

Reputation: 4432

It's ok to use HttpResponse, in fact render uses HttpResponse as base class, as well as TemplateResponse that's based on SimpleTemplateResponse with parent class HttpResponse

Upvotes: 1

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