You'll want to write your own Loader: http://jinja.pocoo.org/docs/dev/api/#loaders
"Different loaders are available and you can also write your own if you want to load templates from a database or other resources." FunctionLoader might be an easy way to get started: http://jinja.pocoo.org/docs/dev/api/#jinja2.FunctionLoader Try wrapping a function which looks up templates in the database. On Wed, Apr 13, 2016 at 11:22 PM, David Rueter <dbrue...@gmail.com> wrote: > I am using the Jinja environment .from_string() method to create my > templates from a strings stored in a database. > > This is working well, but I would like to be able to include > templates--such as perhaps a common template for the header, a common > template for the footer, etc. > > The Jinja Include extension seems only to support including templates from > files--not templates that already exist in memory. > > I could accomplish what I am trying to do through string manipulation > prior to instantiating the template .from_string() -- i.e. combine the > various template strings into a complete template string, and only then > instantiate a Jinja template object from that complete string--but I am > wondering if there is a better way. > > I could probably accomplish this with a custom filter as well: pass in the > ID for the template to include, instantiate that template from the string > in the database, render that template, then have the filter return that > output. This however would add some overhead, and would require passing in > a copy of the data variables to the other template render method. > > Does anyone have any suggestions as to how to include other templates when > not using template files and instead creating templates from strings? > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "pocoo-libs" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to pocoo-libs+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to pocoo-libs@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/pocoo-libs. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "pocoo-libs" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to pocoo-libs+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to pocoo-libs@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/pocoo-libs. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
