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Message from discussion Adding request path to the stdvars

Alberto Valverde

More options Apr 16 2007, 4:58 pm

From: Alberto Valverde <albe...@toscat.net>

Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2007 22:58:49 +0200

Local: Mon, Apr 16 2007 4:58 pm

Subject: Re: [tg-trunk] Adding request path to the stdvars

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On Apr 16, 2007, at 10:23 PM, Christoph Zwerschke wrote:

> I wonder why the current request path is not available as a global
> template variable (e.g. as tg.path = cherrypy.request.path). I think
> that would be very handy for displaying navigation, breadcrumbs, menus
> etc. in the template. And instead setting a flag in the controller
> it is
> often easier to check the path directly.

> Shall I submit this as a patch or am I missing something?

You can add whatever variables your app needs to the template
namespae by appending a function to view.variable_providers

def my_vars(d):
d['path'] = cherrypy.request.path

from turbogears import view
view.varibale_providers.append(my_vars)

Alberto

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