Opened 16 years ago

Closed 10 years ago

#8158 closed New feature (fixed)

Make possible to extend some of admin's templates

Reported by: Marinho Brandão Owned by: nobody
Component: contrib.admin Version: dev
Severity: Normal Keywords:
Cc: semente@…, Andy Baker, Sindre Sorhus Triage Stage: Accepted
Has patch: no Needs documentation: no
Needs tests: no Patch needs improvement: no
Easy pickings: no UI/UX: no

Description

The current admin/index.html template should be renamed to admin/base_index.html and a new admin/index.html created with only a {% extends "admin/base_index.html" %}, to make possible extends the Admin index page with no needs to generate a new and non-dynamic file using manage.py admin_index command.

This is a little change that can helps developers to avoid rewrite a customized AdminSite.index method or generate a static template.

Attachments (2)

8158.diff (5.7 KB ) - added by Marinho Brandão 16 years ago.
testproject.tar.gz (10.7 KB ) - added by Pablo Martín 14 years ago.

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Change History (26)

by Marinho Brandão, 16 years ago

Attachment: 8158.diff added

comment:1 by Marinho Brandão, 16 years ago

Has patch: set

comment:2 by Julien Phalip, 16 years ago

Triage Stage: UnreviewedAccepted

+1 for this. The index.html template is currently not extensible (provokes recursive importing). Moving all the code to an extra file base_index.html seems like a good approach to me.

comment:3 by Julian Bez, 16 years ago

milestone: 1.0 maybe

comment:4 by Guilherme M. Gondim <semente@…>, 16 years ago

Cc: semente@… added

comment:5 by Jacob, 16 years ago

milestone: 1.0 maybe1.0

comment:6 by Jacob, 16 years ago

milestone: 1.0post-1.0

This really just papers over a bigger problem, that of letting a template extend its parent (like Jinja `{% extends "!parent.html" %}). I'm going to call this a "feature" and push it post-1.0; for now folks can just copy/paste.

comment:7 by (none), 16 years ago

milestone: post-1.0

Milestone post-1.0 deleted

comment:8 by lpetrov, 15 years ago

any updates?

comment:9 by Tay Ray Chuan, 15 years ago

Resolution: worksforme
Status: newclosed

While we await the {% extends "!parent.html" %} feature (I don't know if this planned or not), one could do this in the meantime:

{% extends '/path/to/default/admin/templates/admin/base.html' %}

comment:10 by Luke Plant, 15 years ago

Another way to do the above is to have a template directory which contains the other template directories (possibly via symlinks). This is added to the end of your TEMPLATE_DIRS. Then, the tag looks like:

{% extends 'alltemplate/admin/base.html' %}

See ExtendingTemplates

comment:11 by Julien Phalip, 15 years ago

Resolution: worksforme
Status: closedreopened

I don't think this ticket should have been closed. No decision has been taken yet about whether or not the template extension system will be improved to cover this issue.

comment:12 by vinyll, 14 years ago

making a symlink and extending it does the trick.
However, +1 for making it extendable.

comment:13 by Matthias Kestenholz, 14 years ago

Related tickets:
#2414 coredump of python by a template extending itself
#14140 There is no way to override admin templates to the project level

comment:14 by Marinho Brandão, 14 years ago

Summary: Make possible to extend admin/index.htmlMake possible to extend some of admin's templates

This change should be done for many of admin templates, like:

  • app_index.html
  • change_form.html
  • change_list.html
  • delete_confirmation.html
  • index.html
  • login.html
  • object_history.html

All of those above could be renamed as "base_*" and a new one with original name would just "{% extends "base_..." %}" .

The worst part on customizing Admin is to make a symlink of admin's templates directory with a fake name to can extend them to avoid a bad copy/paste of all a directory. It works, but it's a quick fix.

I think: what's the problem with this idea, if many other things in Django does the same? (i.e.: every class and templates starting with "base... ")

comment:15 by Marinho Brandão, 14 years ago

BTW, Jacob, I guess that allow extending from another template with the same name, like a parent as Jinja does is incompatible with Django's model for templates.

Because Django just finds a template by name in the sequence of template loaders and their internal sequences (usually TEMPLATE_DIRS and INSTALLED_APPS).

There's no "parent", really. What's there is just a template that is found before another with the same name, so, how could we say to a template to extend its parent? Skipping its own to find the next in the sequency of paths?

So, I guess this would be a worse trick than just rename those templates as base_* and extend them to the right name.

comment:16 by jacmkno, 14 years ago

Another ticket about this issue: http://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/14140. I think a good solution would be to change the template look up process to prevent cycles, initially by ignoring a template path which is the same as the template that triggered the lookup, and beyond, by changing the lookup algorithm to flag "search nodes" in order to prevent multi-node cycles.

comment:17 by jacmkno, 14 years ago

Has patch: unset

Another ticket about this issue: #14140. I think a good solution would be to change the template look up process to prevent cycles, initially by ignoring a template path which is the same as the template that triggered the lookup, and beyond, by changing the lookup algorithm to flag "search nodes" in order to prevent multi-node cycles.

by Pablo Martín, 14 years ago

Attachment: testproject.tar.gz added

comment:18 by Pablo Martín, 14 years ago

We have implemented a generic solution for a template so that a template loader can extend another template from another template loader. Both templates have the same name.It is described in ticket #15053.

I am going to upload a sample project. You can see the example visiting the admin site index or a change list. This project work with trunk.

I think the principal is the idea:

  • It makes sense that a template of a project extends a template for an application, both templates have the same name.
  • It makes sense that a template of a project extends a template of an egg, both templates have the same name.
  • It makes sense that a template for an application extends a template of an egg, both templates have the same name.

A template can extend always of another template of another template loader if the order of the template loaders are the correct.

It's posible that exists a case where a template of an application extends another template of another application, with the same name, but it's a strange case, this case will be hard to debug, and this should be delegated to the template loader "app_directories".

comment:19 by Andy Baker, 14 years ago

Cc: Andy Baker added

comment:20 by Luke Plant, 14 years ago

Severity: Normal
Type: New feature

comment:21 by Sindre Sorhus, 13 years ago

Cc: Sindre Sorhus added
Easy pickings: unset
UI/UX: unset

comment:22 by Aymeric Augustin, 12 years ago

Status: reopenednew

comment:23 by Preston Timmons, 10 years ago

This was fixed as part of #15053.

comment:24 by Preston Timmons, 10 years ago

Resolution: fixed
Status: newclosed
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