I have category and subcategory store in my database, and subcategory is related to category, I have multiple pages on my website, but I am able to display category in the menu on some pages, but I...

I'm trying to use a simple_tag and set a context variable. I'm using the trunk version of django: from django import template @register.simple_tag(takes_context=True) def somefunction(context, obj...

I have come to a point where I need to pass certain variables to all of my views (mostly custom authentication type variables). I was told writing my own context processor was the best way to do t...

I have been writing tests for one of my django applications and have been looking to get around this problem for quite some time now. I have a view that sends messages using django.contrib.messages...

I have this Django Url: url( r'^(?P<language>.*)/(?P<shop>.*)/(?P<brand>.*)/$', 'app.views.view_1' ), Now, "language", "shop", "brand" are all parameters into my url and I want...

class MyModelSerializer(serializers.ModelSerializer): field1 = serializers.CharField() field2 = serializers.SerializerMethodField('get_awesome_user') def get_current_user(self): request = self...

Assuming I have a context processor: def title(request): return {'titles': 'mytitle'} I can access this variable in template as {{ titles }}. But how can I do so in a view? def myview(request...

I'm building Django application, with submitting links and voting functionality. I want to show all links, voted by a user in user details page. I can retrieve them in python shell using this: Li...

This is what I am trying to run. When I run the server and run these lines within a view and then return an HttpResponse, then everything goes fine. However when I run python manage.py shell and th...

It seems to me that everything a context processor can do, middleware can do. So what's the point of context processors? Are they just middleware-lite?

I'm trying to understand the concept of context and context processor. What is a context and why do you use it? Is a context a value you need to have available in order to use in a template? Is a ...

I've got an activation url that carries the activation key ( /user/activate/123123123 ). That works without any issue. get_context_data can plop it into the template fine. What I want to do is have...

When defining a FormView derived class: class PrefsView(FormView): template_name = "prefs.html" form_class = MyForm # What's wrong with this? def get(self,request): context = self.get_context_...

My code is like this: I custom my context and want to access my query set in template class GetStudentQueryHandler(ListView): template_name = 'client.html' paginate_by = STUDENT_PER_PAGE conte...

I am extending change_list.html and I need to output a variable defined in settings.py. How do I pass that particular variable into the custom admin template context?

This should be a super simple one. I'm pretty sure that I've used this context successfully in the past in my templates for linking purposes. My belief was that this was built into the RequestConte...

Is there a way I can access current context passed by view in custom context processor so I can add missing variable if I want rather than overriding existing variable ? What I'm trying to Achiev...

I am trying to create a custom context processor which will render a list of menu items for a logged in user. I have done the following: Within my settings.py I have TEMPLATE_CONTEXT_PROCESSOR...