Template params - list type

[Souparnika <nishakv@…>]

Hi,

When I try to pass a list variable as one of template params from one of my view using render_to_response method in the view it is getting as a string data type.

View code -

ids = getIds(id,project_slug)-> returns a list type (eg: ids = [11111L,222222L]
template_params = {'ids':ids}
return render_to_response(template, template_params,
                              context_instance=RequestContext(request))

Then in the view.html

var ids = {{ ids }};

But here it is having problems since it is considering as string data type.

Any suggestions will be very usefull.

Thanks,
Nisha.

[Malcolm Tredinnick]

Unbreak description formatting (the preview button is your friend!).

What is the problem you are actually seeing here? Templates output strings, so there's no concept of a type in the output. What do you expect to see and what are you seeing? I suspect this is an incorrect expectation, rather than a bug, but if you could provide some more details that would be helpful.

[Souparnika <nishakv@…>]

The problem is passing a list variable from a view to one of the template.
I am having a problem when it gets assigned to a javascript variable.

The line where it gets assigned var ids = {{ ids }};

I have copied below how it is getting rendered in the view and the error

ids = [1054652L];

Error - missing ] after element list

[Malcolm Tredinnick]

Ok, so this isn't a Django bug. Django's templates, if given no other information just display the Python unicode() form of the variable, which for something like a list means the repr() output. You need a filter to convert it to display as valid Javascript, for example.

Closing this, since it's not a bug. If you need more help, please ask on the django-users list.