I'm trying to do something like this - I have a function that needs to include another template - but dynamically from a variable and I can't seems to do it
# include template A
add_tmpl("a.html")
# include template B
add_tmpl("b.html")
<%def name="add_tmpl(include_file)">
<%inherit file="${include_file}" /> # doesn't work
<%include file="${include_file}" /> # work but I need to define args=""
<%/def>
Errors list while debugging:
# NameError: global name 'include_file' is not defined
<%inherit file="${include_file}" />
# mako.exceptions.SyntaxException: Expected: %> in file 'templates/index.html' at line: 220 char: 9
<%inherit file=${include_file} /> # and same for:
<%inherit file=include_file />
# Can't find template ( thought maybe it will know it's a variable )
<%inherit file="include_file" />
This is where I run out of ideas ... any idea ?
I'm writing this until I'll get a real solution/answer from others.
Since the problem is when I include vs inherit - I also need to define the args="" dynamically - but each use of the add_tmpl() function has different amount of variables ( in later version in Mako you don't need to, but I can't upgrade ).
So as a temp solution I've done something like this:
# include template A
add_tmpl("a.html", var1=value1, var2=value2, var3=value2)
# include template B
add_tmpl("b.html", var3=value3)
<%def name="add_tmpl(include_file, include_args)">
<%include file="${include_file}" args="**include_args" />
<%/def>
Found another option.
Apperantly there's a variable called context and it holds kwargs in it.
So we can simply write **context.kwargs to extract all variables in the current template and pass them on as is
And we can pass ALL variables to the included template with
<%include file="${include_file}" args="**context.kwargs" />
<%include file="${include_file}" args="var1=var1, **context.kwargs" />
More about it: http://docs.makotemplates.org/en/latest/runtime.html#mako.runtime.Context