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How do I get nested templates like Jinja has in the python runtime. TBC what I mean is how do I have a bunch of templates inherit from a base templates, just filing in blocks of the base templates, like Jinja/django-templates does. Is it possible using just html/template in the standard library.
If that is not a possibility, what are my alternatives. Mustache seems to be an option but would I then be missing out on those nice subtle features of html/template like the context sensitive escaping etc.? What other alternatives are ther?
(Environment: Google App Engin, Go runtime v1, Dev - Mac OSx lion)
Thanks for reading.
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As mentioned in Gotchas of using template in HTML5Rocks tutorial: Activating the outer template will not active inner templates. That is to say, nested templates require that their children also be manually activated.
Yes it is possible. A html.Template is actually a set of template files. If you execute a defined block in this set, it has access to all the other blocks defined in this set.
If you create a map of such template sets on your own, you have basically the same flexibility that Jinja / Django offers. The only difference is that the html/template package has no direct access to the file system, so you have to parse and compose the templates on your own.
Consider the following example with two different pages ("index.html" and "other.html") that both inherit from "base.html":
// Content of base.html: {{define "base"}}<html> <head>{{template "head" .}}</head> <body>{{template "body" .}}</body> </html>{{end}} // Content of index.html: {{define "head"}}<title>index</title>{{end}} {{define "body"}}index{{end}} // Content of other.html: {{define "head"}}<title>other</title>{{end}} {{define "body"}}other{{end}} And the following map of template sets:
tmpl := make(map[string]*template.Template) tmpl["index.html"] = template.Must(template.ParseFiles("index.html", "base.html")) tmpl["other.html"] = template.Must(template.ParseFiles("other.html", "base.html")) You can now render your "index.html" page by calling
tmpl["index.html"].Execute("base", data) and you can render your "other.html" page by calling
tmpl["other.html"].Execute("base", data) With some tricks (e.g. a consistent naming convention of your template files), it's even possible to generate the tmpl map automatically.
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note, when you execute your base template, you must pass values down to the child templates, here I simply pass ".", so that everything is passed down.
template one displays {{.}}
{{define "base"}} <html> <div class="container"> {{.}} {{template "content" .}} </div> </body> </html> {{end}} template two displays {{.domains}} that's passed into the parent.
{{define "content"}} {{.domains}} {{end}} Note, if we used {{template "content" .}} instead of {{template "content" .}}, .domains wouldn't be accessible from the content template.
DomainsData := make(map[string]interface{}) DomainsData["domains"] = domains.Domains if err := groupsTemplate.ExecuteTemplate(w, "base", DomainsData); err != nil { http.Error(w, err.Error(), http.StatusInternalServerError) } If you love us? You can donate to us via Paypal or buy me a coffee so we can maintain and grow! Thank you!
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