Custom Template Tag

[Al Johri]

Hi Django Users,

I want to make a custom template tag where the tag's renderer needs to make a POST request.

https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.10/howto/custom-template-tags/#writing-the-renderer

https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.10/howto/custom-template-tags/#thread-safety-considerations

Is it possible to render the nodes of a template in multiple threads? I would ideally like those POST requests to happen at the same time.

Does anyone know of some similar project?

Thanks,

Al

[ludovic coues]

I wouldn't do it this way.
Personally, I would make the POST request in the view function, put
the return value in the context. The template isn't a good place to
have logic. It should only take data and format them.

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[Al Johri]

Ludovic,

I'm using the templates for a different purpose, not in a web framework or view.

Thanks,

Al

[Constantine Covtushenko]

Hi All,
There is no valuable reason to do it in the template. And no matter how to ate using it, cause template should only present view model(s).

But if you tell us your intention may be we can suggest a better place for such request?

Regards,

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[Al Johri]

I'm experimenting with creating templates out of subtemplates. These subtemplates can be either (a) simple text or (b) a hash representing a sentence (i.e. {subject: "Dog", verb: "eat", object: "my {{var}}", tense: "past"}). I would like to run the hashes through a realization engine which would render as "Dog ate my homework" given a context dictionary of {var: "homework"}. The realization engine is accessed via a REST API.

Does that make sense?

[Abraham Varricatt]

The idea of doing a POST request during template rendering seems weird. As others have mentioned - that's not the place for it. 

But perhaps you issue could be a matter of performing your POST operation on the client side, instead of the django server? In that case, it might be worth investigating if you could code in some JS inside your template so that when the client's browser loads it, the POST operation is called and changes are made appropriately on the site. 

Yours,

Abraham V.