django_inlines 0.7.4

Example:

Register your inlines:

from django_inlines import inlines
from django_inlines.samples import YoutubeInline

inlines.registry.register('youtube', YoutubeInline)

In your entry.body:

<p>Check out my new video:</p>

{{ youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXJKdh1KZ0w }}

In your template:

{% load inlines %}
{% process_inlines entry.body %}

Output:

<p>Check out my new video:</p>

<div class="youtube_video">
  <object width="480" height="295">
    <param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/RXJKdh1KZ0w&hl=en&fs=1"></param>
    <param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param>
    <param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param>
    <embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/RXJKdh1KZ0w&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="295"></embed>
  </object>
</div>

Creating inlines

An inline can be any class that provides a render method and has an __init__ that can take these arguments:

__init__(self, value, variant=None, context=None, template_dir="", **kwargs)

Django Inlines comes with the base inline classes you can subclass to create your own inlines.

from myapp.models import Photo

class PhotoInline(inlines.ModelInline):
  model = Photo

inlines.registry.register('photo', PhotoInline)

{{ photo 1 }}

from django_inlines.inlines import inline_for_model
inlines.registry.register('photo', inline_for_model(Photo))

Inline syntax

Django inlines use this syntax {{ name[:variant] value [argument=value ...] }}

name

The name the inline has been registered under. Template inlines use this as the base name for their templates.

value

Any string. It’s the requirement of the inline class to parse this string.

variant optional

Variants can be used by the inline class to alter behavior. By default any inline that renders a template uses this to check for an alternate template. {{ youtube:hd <videourl> }} would first check for inlines/youtube.hd.html before checking for inlines/youtube.html.

arguments optional

Any number of key=value pairs are allowed at the end of an inline. These are passed directly to the template as context vars. {{ youtube:hd <videourl> width=400 height=200 }}

The template tag

Searches through the provided content and applies inlines where ever they are found. The current context of your template is passed into to your inline templates.

Syntax:

{% process_inlines entry.body [in template_dir] [as varname] }

Example:

{% process_inlines entry.body %}

{% process_inlines entry.body as body %}

{% process_inlines entry.body in 'inlines/sidebar' %}

{% process_inlines entry.body in 'inlines/sidebar' as body %}

If given the optional template_dir argument inlines will first check in that directory for their template before falling back to inlines/<inline_name>.html

If given [as varname] the tag won’t return anything but will instead populate varname in your context. Then you can apply filters or test against the output.

Settings

You can override some settings within your settings.py:

• INLINE_DEBUG = True: Normally a error with your inlines would fail silently. Turning this to True would raise all exceptions your inlines might produce. Default: False

• INLINES_START_TAG = '{{': The start tag used in the inline syntax. Default: '{{'

• INLINES_END_TAG = '}}': The end tag used in the inline syntax. Default: '}}'

To do:

Warning: Django inlines is still under development. Every thing here is well tested and functional, but stability isn’t promised yet. Important bits don’t exist yet. These include:

• Better documentation.

• Admin style auto discovery of inlines.py in your apps.

• Adding validation hooks to the base classes.

• A model field and a widget for validation and improved adding in the admin.

0.7.2

Bug fixes:

• Arguments now work correctly (thanks to Martin Mahner).

• Fixed a bug in the regex that would split passed values incorrectly occasionally.

New:

• START_TAG and END_TAG can now be controlled via settings.

0.7.1

• Includes fixes from Jannis Leidel so it actually works on Pypi now. Thanks Jannis!

0.7

• Initial public release