Load Template without rendering/parsing

[Guilherme Leal]

Hello!

Anyone knows a way to load a template file WITHOUT parsing/rendering it?

To ilustrate a bit more: 

I have a django app serving a restfull api, and everithing is just fine with it. The front end that consumes this api, is an Angular.js single page app. To centralize the routing logic, what i want to do is to let django to serve the "index.html" of this app. The only problem is, when i load the html of the front end (through "django.template.loader.get_template"), the template engine tries to parse it, and throws an exception because this "template" has the angularjs template tags on it.

What i need is:

- Load the template without parsing/rendering it

OR

- Serve this html document as static in production (the static serving view only works when debug is activated)

Thanx in advance!

[François Schiettecatte]

You can just read the file content and return it with an HttpResponse(), like this:


# File handle
fileHandle = None

# Open the file, return a 404 if failed
try:
fileHandle = open(filePath, 'r')
except IOError:
raise Http404()

# Return the file
return HttpResponse(content=fileHandle.read(), content_type=’text/html')

François

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[Guilherme Leal]

This solution crossed my mind, and the only down side that i see on it, is that i cant use the "template.loader" logic for finding the right template.

Em seg, 16 de mar de 2015 às 09:59, François Schiettecatte <fschiet...@gmail.com> escreveu:

You can just read the file content and return it with an HttpResponse(), like this:


    # File handle
    fileHandle = None

    # Open the file, return a 404 if failed
    try:
        fileHandle = open(filePath, 'r')
    except IOError:
        raise Http404()

   # Return the file
    return HttpResponse(content=fileHandle.read(), content_type=’text/html')

François


> On Mar 16, 2015, at 8:49 AM, Guilherme Leal <leal...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hello!
>
> Anyone knows a way to load a template file WITHOUT parsing/rendering it?
>
> To ilustrate a bit more:
>
> I have a django app serving a restfull api, and everithing is just fine with it. The front end that consumes this api, is an Angular.js single page app. To centralize the routing logic, what i want to do is to let django to serve the "index.html" of this app. The only problem is, when i load the html of the front end (through "django.template.loader.get_template"), the template engine tries to parse it, and throws an exception because this "template" has the angularjs template tags on it.
>
> What i need is:
> - Load the template without parsing/rendering it
> OR
> - Serve this html document as static in production (the static serving view only works when debug is activated)
>
> Thanx in advance!
>
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[François Schiettecatte]

I am not sure what you mean.

I have this is urls.py

# Root view, goes to 'app.home.views.page'
(r'^$', 'app.home.views.page'),

and the code below in page() in views.py, django routes ‘/‘ to that view and it renders the home page.

Or you could use {% ssi %} to include the angular stuff.

François

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[Guilherme Leal]

and the {% ssi %} was the winner :)

the only thing that i didnt liked is that i have to strictly type the file path. But that would happend either way, working with the file directly or not.

anyway, worked with the {% ssi %}.

Thanks A LOT!

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[Avraham Serour]

if you don't want django to render your angularjs template file then don't.

You could treat it as a static file, same way as a .png, the request woudn't even get to django

you can not use render to return on the view, instead return the file without loading it in the template renderer

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[Guilherme Leal]

Can you give me an exemple?

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[Guilherme Leal]

Just to clarify the things a little bit more to Avraham.. i DO want the request to pass through django....

what i dont want is that django treat this particular html as a template.

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[Bill Freeman]

But that's what the template loader does.  It loads *DJANGO* templates.  If it does the loading, the template will receive Django processing.

I see two choices:

1. Quote everything in the template that looks like a Django template special syntax so that the rendering process instead just renders it as what you wanted orriginally.

2. Load the file yourself.  Yes, you have to know the path or search suitable sub-directories of installed apps yourself.  But those directories probably shouldn't be called "templates", because those are for Django templates.  Perhaps "angular_templates"?

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[Avraham Serour]

return HttpResponse(content, content_type='text/html')

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[Guilherme Leal]

Well, that preaty much closes the case Bill..

already created a function that loads the file independently, and returns a HttpResponse with its contents...

But thanks a lot for everyones help!

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