Default value in dict returned by the controller

[Mandar Vaze]

Hi,

I have several views which are similar, so I am using common view file using "response.view =common_view.html" rather than separate one per controller.

Out of these - 2 or 3 views are slightly different where certain parts of the page (layout.html) need to be hidden.

I tried :

return dict(msg=msg, grid=grid, hide_my_div=True)

in the view template I have :

{{if hide_my_div:}}
<script>
 $(document).ready(function(){
      $("#my_div").hide();
  });
<script>
{{pass}}

This works for the small number of views where I want to hide "my_div"
Unfortunately - this also means I need to pass "hide_my_div=False" from large number of controllers.

Is there a way to have hide_my_div=False as a default - so that I do not need to return it explicitly - and I can override only when needed (2-3 controllers)
Something like optional params with default values ?

May be the way I am handling this is wrong. Is there a better way ?

(I know that I can create separate view files for these "odd ones", but I prefer not to, since these are going to be 90% similar to common_view.html anyway)

Thanks,
-Mandar

[Kiran Subbaraman]

globals().get(' hide_my_div',False) should return a False, if this is not present.

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[Vinicius Assef]

I would extend your common view with an empty block to hide the
undesired part and avoid passing this argument to views.

[Mandar Vaze]

Kiran,

Thanks.

I came across same solution when I searched this forum a little more (I had already searched before posting, obviously not enough)
https://groups.google.com/d/msg/web2py/b1WmPZh6PlI/nMAX-u5Des0J

-Mandar