Custom Template Tags Render Method

[Ross]

To create our own custom template tags we have to define a Node subclass which implements a render method.

Example from https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/2.2/howto/custom-template-tags/#auto-escaping-considerations

import datetime
from django import template

class CurrentTimeNode(template.Node):
    def __init__(self, format_string):
        self.format_string = format_string

    def render(self, context):
        return datetime.datetime.now().strftime(self.format_string)

It seems the context parameter for the render function is a 'context object' and not a 'request context object'.  Indeed this section of the same article seems to support this - To create our own custom template tags we have to define a Node subclass which implements a render method.

Anyway when I followed the example and printed the context object it looks to be a request object.  Is this a bug?  I'm using the latest django.

[Ross]

I meant to write "indeed this section of the same article seems to support this - https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/2.2/howto/custom-template-tags/#auto-escaping-considerations"