Template inheritance from page.parent

[kenb...@gmail.com]

I have a use-case where I want, for example, an "About" page with sub-pages. I want the sub-pages to use the same template as the "About" page. I can write templates for each sub-page, but that doesn't seem very DRY.

The solution that I have in mind is to create a template at /pages/about/richtextpage.html. Sub-pages such as "About/Team" would check first for /pages/about/team.html, then try  /pages/about/richtextpage.html, and finally fall back on /pages/richtextpage.html. Is this harebrained? Anyone have oter suggestions?

[Brian Schott]

Sounds like a great idea. Maybe you should look for {{ page.content_model }}.html since there are other page types?

"content_model": "richtextpage",
"content_model": "category",
"content_model": "form",

[Gary Reynolds]

I don't think it's hair-brained at all - I think it's the right way.

I often do something like:

subpage.html → extends page.html → extends base.html

You obviously need a good {% block %} structure to leverage what you want to achieve, but as far as a methodology goes I think it's a good one.

Gary

[Gary Reynolds]

Oh, after seeing Brian's response, I think I've answered a different question to the one you've asked.

You're talking about a not having a custom template *at all* for a sub-page and extending the template resolution order? I've already written something like this in one of my projects; I'll try and dig it out and put it in a gist.

Gary

[kenb...@gmail.com]

I believe Mezzanine already handles this case. Category pages will render an existing templates/pages/category.html, unless I am misunderstanding something. That would work nicely if I wanted to subclass Page, rather than using Page or doing field injection on the Page model. 

The relevant snippet of code is at mezzanine/pages/views.py:70-76. I am thinking about something inserted after line 71 like:

    templates.append(u"pages/%s/page.html" % template_name)

    if page.parent is not None:

        template_name = unicode(page.parent.slug)

        templates.append(u"pages/%s/page.html" % template_name)

That is obviously not adequate for deeply nested pages.

best,

ken

[Stephen McDonald]

If anyone's interested in this, we're currently working out a solution here:

https://github.com/stephenmcd/mezzanine/pull/318

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