Adding context data to a TemplateView?

[Roy Smith]

I'm using a generic TemplateView (django-1.4), but I want to be able to add something to the context.  Is that possible?

The docs at https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.4/topics/generic-views/#adding-extra-context talk about "an extra optional parameter, extra_context", but I don't get what they're trying to explain.  I tried the obvious:

    url(r'^about$',

    TemplateView.as_view(template_name='legal_ipsum/about.html',

                         extra_context={'pagename': 'about'})

        ),

in my urls.py file, but that just raises: "TemplateView() received an invalid keyword 'extra_context'".  What am I missing here?

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Roy Smith

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[Ejah]

Quotes around extra_context
HTH

On Apr 22, 11:20 pm, Roy Smith <r...@panix.com> wrote:
> I'm using a generic TemplateView (django-1.4), but I want to be able to add something to the context.  Is that possible?
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> The docs athttps://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.4/topics/generic-views/#adding-ex...talk about "an extra optional parameter, extra_context", but I don't get what they're trying to explain.  I tried the obvious:

[Ejah]

Oh, and an extra set of curly braces:

url(r'^about$',
TemplateView.as_view(template_name='legal_ipsum/about.html',

{"extra_content":{"pagename":"about"}})),

On Apr 22, 11:28 pm, Ejah <ej.huijb...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Quotes around extra_context
> HTH
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> On Apr 22, 11:20 pm, Roy Smith <r...@panix.com> wrote:
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> > I'm using a generic TemplateView (django-1.4), but I want to be able to add something to the context.  Is that possible?
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> > The docs athttps://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.4/topics/generic-views/#adding-ex...about "an extra optional parameter, extra_context", but I don't get what they're trying to explain.  I tried the obvious:

[Buddy Lindsey, Jr.]

This should help you out with adding extra context to TemplateView

http://godjango.com/15-class-based-views-part-1-templateview-and-redirectview/

Roy Smith wrote:

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[Fallen Flint]

Take a look at https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.4/topics/generic-views-migration/#extra-context
There's no way for provide an extra_context to a TemplateView. You need to subclass TemplateView and re-implement get_context_data in the way described in aforementioned topic.

[Dan Gentry]

Roy, I agree with Fallen that a subclass of TemplateView is required here.  I have used this technique often.  Dan

class MyTemplateView(TemplateView):

    template_name = 'my_template.html'

    def get_context_data(self, **kwargs):
        context = super(MyTemplateView, self).get_context_data(**kwargs)
        context['custom_variable'] = u'my special data'
        return context

[bo...@rukkus.com]

An additional point, if you want to be able to use the view more generically (be able to pass in custom context from your urls.py), I've done the following:

class StaticPageView(TemplateView):

    context = None

    def get_context_data(self, **kwargs):

        context = super(StaticPageView, self).get_context_data(**kwargs)

        context.update(self.context or {})

        return context