django_context_management_sandbox's Introduction

Playing with Django Context Processors

Built-in Context Processors

You could use these built-ins straight into your templates. You could also check .

Creating Your Own Context Processor

Create a new file — context_processors.py — inside your application. In this case, the application name is main.

touch main/context_processors.py

Put whatever info you like in your custom context processor.

def avengers(request):
    return {
        'avengers': {
            'Tony Stark': 'Iron Man',
            'Peter Parker': 'Spider-Man',
            'Clint Barton': 'Hawkeye',
            'Bruce Banner': 'Professor Hulk',
            'Scott Lang': 'Ant-Man',
            'Natasha Romanoff': 'Black Widow',
            'Steve Rogers': 'Captain America'
        }
    }

Modify your settings.py so that it would look something like this.

TEMPLATES = [
    {
        'BACKEND': 'django.template.backends.django.DjangoTemplates',
        'DIRS': [os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'templates')],
        'APP_DIRS': True,
        'OPTIONS': {
            'context_processors': [
                'main.context_processors.avengers', # new context processor
                'django.template.context_processors.debug',
                'django.template.context_processors.request',
                'django.contrib.auth.context_processors.auth',
                'django.contrib.messages.context_processors.messages',
            ],
        },
    },
]