On Jul 28, 6:24 am, iJames <[email protected]> wrote:
> HI,
>
> I've got a session object which is a dict. I'm using it to track the
> state of screen elements (an expanding tree).
>
> request.session['mystate'] = {'1':'true', '2','false'}
>
> In my template I'm looping through the branches:
>
> object.id is 1
> object.id is 2
>
> So:
>
> I want to test:
>
> request.session['mystate'][object.id]=='true':
>
> But how can get that multidimensional dynamic ref into a template with
> only dot notation?
>
> I don't see how I can even do it in the view without stuffing the
> information into the model object.
>
> Any ideas? Thanks much!
>
> James
You need a very simple custom filter.
@register.filter
def get_item(obj, key):
return obj[key]
Now in the template:
{% if request.session.mystate|get_item:object.id %}
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