[Twisted-web] Twisted.Web and Jinja2

[Jo as Queeniebee]

This is great, thanks.

I want to deploy a content server on my Raspberry Pi, do I need to write a
separate file for the server/reactor that imports views.py and config.py?

Jo


On Wed, Jun 19, 2013 at 2:35 PM, Lucas Taylor <ltaylor.volks at gmail.com>wrote:

>
> On Jun 18, 2013, at 8:47 PM, Jo as Queeniebee wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I'm writing a content server to run on my Raspberry Pi and I'll be using
> Jinja2 as the templating engine. I'm new to Twisted so I'm having a hard
> time imaging the examples for TwistedMatrix.com scale.
>
> Are there any examples of a fully featured Twisted application that uses
> Jinja2 or any other templating engine like Mako?
>
>
>
> Hi Jo,
>
> You can return a string (e.g. a rendered jinja2 template) from the .render
> method of an IResource
>
> http://twistedmatrix.com/documents/current/web/howto/using-twistedweb.html#auto6
>
> So when you see a string being returned from a Resource in the docs, you
> can consider substituting the particulars of the template engine you want
> to use.
>
>
> Here's a very simple example of one approach using jinja2:
>
> ##  myapp/config.py
> #
> # Define a jinja2 Environment somewhere
> # I specify a PackageLoader to look up templates from the templates folder
> in the myapp.web.static package
> from jinja2 import Environment, PackageLoader
> jinja = Environment(loader=PackageLoader('myapp.web.static', 'templates'))
>
> ----
> ## myapp/web/views.py
> #
> from twisted.web.resource import Resource
> from myapp.config import jinja
>
> class MyResource(Resource):
>     isLeaf = True
>     template_name = "example.html"
>
>     def render_GET(self, request):
>         ctx = {
>             'content': "Templated content",
>             'extra_info': [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6]
>         }
>         template = jinja.get_template(self.template_name)
>
>         return template.render(ctx)
>
>
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