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An adapter for using Jinja2 templates with Django.

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.. _jingo:
.. module:: jingo

=====
Jingo
=====

Jingo is an adapter for using Jinja2_ templates within Django.

.. note:: Coffin or Jingo?

Jingo differs from Coffin_ in two major ways:

* Jingo serves purely as a minimalistic bridge between Django and Jinja2_.
Coffin_ attempts to reduce the differences between Jinja2_ templates
and Django's native templates.

* Jingo has a far supperior name, as it is a portmanteau of 'Jinja' and
Django.

.. _Coffin: https://github.com/coffin/coffin/
.. _Jinja2: http://jinja.pocoo.org/2/


.. _usage:

Usage
-----

When configured properly (see Settings_ below) you can render Jinja2_ templates in
your view the same way you'd render Django templates::

from django.shortcuts import render


def MyView(request):
# TODO: Do something.
context = dict(user_ids=[1, 2, 3, 4])
render('users/search.html', context)

..note::

Not only does ``django.shorcuts.render`` work, but so does any method that
Django provides to render templates.

.. _settings:

Settings
--------

You'll want to use Django to use jingo's template loader.
In ``settings.py``::

TEMPLATE_LOADERS = (
'jingo.Loader',
'django.template.loaders.filesystem.Loader',
'django.template.loaders.app_directories.Loader',
)

This will let you use ``django.shortcuts.render`` or
``django.shortcuts.render_to_response``.

You can optionally specify which filename patterns to consider Jinja2 templates::

JINGO_INCLUDE_PATTERN = r'\.jinja2' # use any regular expression here

This will consider every template file that contains the substring `.jinja2` to
be a Jinja2 file (unless it's in a module explicitly excluded, see below).

And finally you may have apps that do not use Jinja2, these must be excluded
from the loader::

JINGO_EXCLUDE_APPS = ('debug_toolbar',)

If a template path begins with ``debug_toolbar``, the Jinja loader will raise a
``TemplateDoesNotExist`` exception. This causes Django to move onto the next
loader in ``TEMPLATE_LOADERS`` to find a template - in this case,
``django.template.loaders.filesystem.Loader``.

.. note::
Technically, we're looking at the template path, not the app. Often these are
the same, but in some cases, like 'registration' in the default setting--which
is an admin template--they are not.

The default is in ``jingo.EXCLUDE_APPS``::

EXCLUDE_APPS = (
'admin',
'admindocs',
'registration'
)

If you want to configure the Jinja environment, use ``JINJA_CONFIG`` in
``settings.py``. It can be a dict or a function that returns a dict. ::

JINJA_CONFIG = {'autoescape': False}

or ::

def JINJA_CONFIG():
return {'the_answer': 41 + 1}


Template Helpers
----------------

Instead of template tags, Jinja encourages you to add functions and filters to
the templating environment. In ``jingo``, we call these helpers. When the
Jinja environment is initialized, ``jingo`` will try to open a ``helpers.py``
file from every app in ``INSTALLED_APPS``. Two decorators are provided to ease
the environment extension:

.. function:: jingo.register.filter

Adds the decorated function to Jinja's filter library.

.. function:: jingo.register.function

Adds the decorated function to Jinja's global namespace.


.. highlight:: jinja

Default Helpers
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Helpers are available in all templates automatically, without any extra
loading.

.. automodule:: jingo.helpers
:members:


Template Environment
--------------------

A single Jinja ``Environment`` is created for use in all templates. This is
available as ``jingo.env`` if you need to work with the ``Environment``.


Localization
------------

Since we all love L10n, let's see what it looks like in Jinja templates::

<h2>{{ _('Reviews for {0}')|f(addon.name) }}</h2>

The simple way is to use the familiar underscore and string within a ``{{ }}``
moustache block. ``f`` is an interpolation filter documented below. Sphinx
could create a link if I knew how to do that.

The other method uses Jinja's ``trans`` tag::

{% trans user=review.user|user_link, date=review.created|datetime %}
by {{ user }} on {{ date }}
{% endtrans %}

``trans`` is nice when you have a lot of text or want to inject some variables
directly. Both methods are useful, pick the one that makes you happy.


Forms
-----

Django marks its form HTML "safe" according to its own rules, which Jinja2 does
not recognize.

.. automodule:: jingo.monkey


Testing
-------

Testing is handle via fabric::

fab test


.. seealso:
The full documentation is available at http://jinja.rtfd.org/ or in the
docs/ folder.

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