from django.template import Library, Node, TemplateSyntaxError, Variable from django.conf import settings from django.core import urlresolvers register = Library() class ViewNode(Node): def __init__(self, url_or_view, args, kwargs): self.url_or_view = url_or_view self.args = args self.kwargs = kwargs def render(self, context): if 'request' not in context: return "" request = context['request'] url_or_view = Variable(self.url_or_view).resolve(context) try: urlconf = getattr(request, "urlconf", settings.ROOT_URLCONF) resolver = urlresolvers.RegexURLResolver(r'^/', urlconf) view, args, kwargs = resolver.resolve(url_or_view) except: view = urlresolvers.get_callable(url_or_view, True) args = [Variable(arg).resolve(context) for arg in self.args] kwargs = {} for key, value in self.kwargs.items(): kwargs[key] = Variable(value).resolve(context) try: if callable(view): return view(context['request'], *args, **kwargs).content raise "%r is not callable" % view except: if settings.TEMPLATE_DEBUG: raise return "" def do_view(parser, token): """ Inserts the output of a view, using fully qualified view name (and then some args), a or local Django URL. {% view view_or_url arg[ arg2] k=v [k2=v2...] %} This might be helpful if you are trying to do 'on-server' AJAX of page panels. Most browsers can call back to the server to get panels of content asynchonously, whilst others (such as mobiles that don't support AJAX very well) can have a template that embeds the output of the URL synchronously into the main page. Yay! Go the mobile web! Follow standard templatetag instructions for installing. IMPORTANT: the calling template must receive a context variable called 'request' containing the original HttpRequest. This means you should be OK with permissions and other session state. ALSO NOTE: that middleware is not invoked on this 'inner' view. Example usage... Using a view name (or something that evaluates to a view name): {% view "mymodule.views.inner" "value" %} {% view "mymodule.views.inner" keyword="value" %} {% view "mymodule.views.inner" arg_expr %} {% view "mymodule.views.inner" keyword=arg_expr %} {% view view_expr "value" %} {% view view_expr keyword="value" %} {% view view_expr arg_expr %} {% view view_expr keyword=arg_expr %} Using a URL (or something that evaluates to a URL): {% view "/inner" %} {% view url_expr %} (Note that every argument will be evaluated against context except for the names of any keyword arguments. If you're warped enough to need evaluated keyword names, then you're probably smart enough to add this yourself!) """ args = [] kwargs = {} tokens = token.split_contents() if len(tokens)<2: raise TemplateSyntaxError, ("%r tag requires one or more arguments" % token.contents.split()[0]) tag_name = tokens.pop(0) url_or_view = tokens.pop(0) for token in tokens: equals = token.find("=") if equals == -1: args.append(token) else: kwargs[str(token[:equals])] = token[equals+1:] return ViewNode(url_or_view, args, kwargs) register.tag('view', do_view)