Type casting template filter proposal

[h3]

There's numerous time where I found myself wishing for type casting
filters in templates..

For example, the following won't work because one is a string and the
other is an integer:

{% if request.GET.year == object.date.year %}
...
{% endif %}

So when I need to compare a string with an int without having to write
custom filters, I use this hack:

{% if request.GET.year == object.date.year|slugify %}
...
{% endif %}

While it works, it ain't pretty.

It would be nice if we could simply do this:

{% if request.GET.year == object.date.year|string %}
...
{% endif %}

Or this:


{% if request.GET.year|int == object.date.year %}
...
{% endif %}

Am I the only one who gets in such situations ? Is there an interest
for such filters ?

If so I might propose a patch..

Regards

[Florian Apolloner]

Hi,

personally I am -1 on that, for the following reasons:

• This can be done in an external library
• You can't support every possibility, you want a string/int filter, I want a blableblub/younameit type conversion
• playing with request.GET.* in templates is probably something you shouldn't do anyways (and other objects coming from the views should have correct types)…

Cheers,
Florian