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Tablify templatetag

Author:
davidblewett
Posted:
May 24, 2007
Language:
Python
Version:
.96
Score:
1 (after 1 ratings)

{% tablify questions name response 8 %}

Will generate a table structure of a list, ensuring that a set number of columns is not exceeded.

It takes 4 arguments: Context Variable Cell Header Attribute Cell Data Attribute Max Number of Columns

The code will loop through the given variable, creating th and td elements for each item. It will create a new tr when the max number of columns is exceeded.

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from django import template

register = template.Library()

class TableNode(template.Node):
    def __init__(self, var, header_attr, cell_attr, max_cols):
        self.var = var
        self.header_attr = header_attr
        self.cell_attr = cell_attr
        self.max_cols = int(max_cols)

    def render(self, context):
        self.var = context[self.var][:]
        remaining = len(self.var)
        html = []
        lvl = 2
        while remaining >= self.max_cols:
            html.append(('\t'*lvl) + '<tr>')
            lvl = 2
            for i in range(self.max_cols):
                html.append('%s<th scope="col" align="center">%s</th>' % 
                (('\t'*lvl), str(getattr(self.var[i], self.header_attr))))
            lvl = 1
            html.append(('\t'*lvl) + '</tr>')
            html.append(('\t'*lvl) + '<tr>')
            lvl = 2
            for i in range(self.max_cols):
                html.append('%s<td align="center" >%s</td>' %
                (('\t'*lvl), str(getattr(self.var[0], self.cell_attr))))
                self.var.pop(0)
            lvl = 1
            html.append(('\t'*lvl) + '</tr>')
            remaining = len(self.var)
        else:
            lvl = 2
            for i in self.var:
                html.append('%s<th scope="col" align="center">%s</th>' %
                (('\t'*lvl), str(getattr(i, self.header_attr))))
            lvl = 1
            html.append(('\t'*lvl) + '</tr>')
            html.append(('\t'*lvl) + '<tr>')
            lvl = 2
            for i in self.var:
                html.append('%s<td align="center">%s</td>' %
                (('\t'*lvl), str(getattr(i, self.cell_attr))))
            lvl = 1
            html.append(('\t'*lvl) + '</tr>')
        return ('\n' + ('\t'*lvl)).join(html)

@register.tag(name='tablify')
def get_table(parser, token):
    try:
        # split_contents() knows not to split quoted strings.
        tag_name, var, header_attr, cell_attr, max_cols = token.split_contents()
    except ValueError:
        raise template.TemplateSyntaxError("%r tag requires 4 arguments " % token.contents[0])
    return TableNode(var, header_attr, cell_attr, max_cols)

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