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Need some advice to use rebase and/or include.

For building a flexible concept with a variable menu system I need to insert a 'menuY.tpl' template into different 'mainX.tpl' pages.

Sounds easy but not only the pages need

   thisTemplate = template('mainX', keys)

but also the menus need changing menukeys

   thisMenu = template('menuY', menukeys)

How to define the different instructions?

python

@app.route('/doit')
def week():
   ...some code here to load keys etc ...
   thisTemplate = template('mainX', keys)
   return thisTemplate

mainX.tpl with

    <body>
      % insert ('menuY', rv)
      <section class="container">
         <p>{{param1}}</p>
         some html code for the main page
      </section>
   </body>

menuY.tpl with just html code for the menu code like this

   <div id="hambgMenu">
       <a href="/">Home - {{titleY}}</a>
       <a href="/week">{{titleZ}}</a>
   </div>

This will not work, at the mainX.tpl line with % insert python says:

   NameError: name 'insert' is not defined

Also how are the variables (titleY,titleZ) passed to that 'menuY'? There is no reference for 'rv' with the coding above.

Isn't your mistake just that you mispelt `include` as `insert`? — Eric, Feb 13 '17 at 13:52

score 0 · Answer 1 · edited May 23 '17 at 11:45

The solution was described here How to pass html directly to template ... very easy, just to add ! to the template reference.

I did some further steps just to have on Python:

@app.route('/doit')
def doit():
    page = insertTPL('mainX', keys, 'menuY', menukeys, 'menuTag')
    return page

.. with menuTag as declared as follows:

So mainX.tpl becomes

    <body>
      {{!menuTag}}
      <section class="container">
         <p>{{param1}}</p>
         some html code for the main page
      </section>
   </body>

The mentioned insertTPL python function has:

  def insertTPL(tpl, keys, menu, menukeys, menuTag):
      subtpl = template(menu, menukeys)
      rv = combineKeys(keys, {menuTag:subtpl}) # combine the menu code with other keys! 
      return template(tpl, rv)

  def combineKeys(rv1, rv2):
      try:
          keys = {key: value for (key, value) in (rv1.items() + rv2.items())}
      except:
          keys = rv1
      return keys

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