Accessing multiple dicts at the same time?

[fgmc...@gmail.com]

Hey there, I got a simple webserver for a site running with onion, but I ran into an issue and I couldn't find a good way to solve it.

What I need to do is create a simple table with multiple columns, it would something like:

for a, b, c in dict1, dict2, dict3:
 <tr>
   <td> {{ a }} </td>
   <td> {{ b }} </td>
   <td> {{ c }} </td>
 </tr>
endfor

But that doesn't seem to work. It seens that I can't access elements by keys either... So I thought of putting all elements in a single dict, but then I couldn't add a counter to control the loop.
My best idea so for was creating a javascript that handles the table. Still not very pratical.

So... what would be the right way to create a table with n rows and 3 columns using onion + otemplate?

Thanks in advance.

[David Moreno]

Hi,

check at
https://github.com/davidmoreno/onion/blob/master/examples/ofileserver/fileserver.html#L29

It does something like:

{% for file in files %}
<tr>
<td><a href="{{file.name}}{% if file.type == "dir" %}/{% endif
%}">{{file.name}}</a></td>
<td>{{file.size}}</td>
<td>{{file.owner}}</td>
</tr>
{% endfor %}

Where files is a dict with key the number, and value the attributes. I
sjson would be something like:

{ "0" : { "size" : "123", "owner" : "dmoreno", "name": "test", "type":
"png"}, "1" : {...} }

Otermplate (and onion) doesnt know (yet?) about arrays in its data
representation layer to otemplate (onion_dict), only dicts and strings.
So the for just iterates through all elements and user can use the
values. In some future version I would like to add support for full
json, maybe using some external library, maybe adding the support to
onion_dict or similar... Anyway, just know its only this: strings and
dicts.

Regards,
David.

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[fgmc...@gmail.com]

Oh, I needed to have added a dict inside the dict to use they keyed values.
Sorry for missing it in the example, I feel stupid now.

It works now, thanks a lot.