Type checking templatetag filters

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"""
filters for checking the type of objects and formfields

Usage:

{% if form|obj_type:'mycustomform' %}
  <form class="custom" action="">
{% else %}
  <form action="">
{% endif %}


{% if field|field_type:'checkboxinput' %}
  <label class="cb_label">{{ field }} {{ field.label }}</label>
{% else %}
  <label for="id_{{ field.name }}">{{ field.label }}</label> {{ field }}
{% endif %}

"""

from django import template
register = template.Library()

def check_type(obj, stype):
    try:
        t = obj.__class__.__name__
        print t
        return t.lower() == str(stype).lower()
    except:
        pass
    return False
register.filter('obj_type', check_type)

def field_type(field, ftype):
    return check_type(field.field.widget, ftype)
register.filter('field_type', field_type)

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Comments

Tomek (on November 8, 2010):

Line 27 - there should not be print t inside template filter - or it will alway return false due to exception that i thrown when using this filter in template. So please remove it or comment it in your code.

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Tomek (on November 22, 2010):

Today I found other filter which You might like more:

http://djangosnippets.org/snippets/294/

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