Django Template Tags in Views

Question

Hi I need to refresh my custom template tag --right_side.py-- via Ajax. Is there a way to import the template tag in the view and return it as HttpResponse because I don\'t

Answer 1

I had this same question awhile ago, I was loading HTML snippets with AJAX which I had already written as template tags. And I was trying to avoid duplicating the code in two places.

This is what I came up with to render a template tag from a view (called via ajax):

from django.template import RequestContext, Template

def myview(req):
   context = RequestContext({'somearg':"FooBarBaz"})

   template_string = """
      {% load my_tag from tagsandfilters %}
      {% my_tag somearg %}
   """

   t = Template(template_string)
   return HttpResponse(t.render(context))