Much appreciate the response Wyatt on this. I will give it a crack and let you know how it goes.
Thanks, Gazza On Mar 20, 2:36 pm, Wyatt Baldwin <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sunday, March 20, 2011 11:46:10 AM UTC-7, gazza wrote: > > > Hiya, > > > I want to pass a c object to a javascript onLoad function. How can I > > do this, if at all? > > What I do is something like this: > > In controller action: > > c.thing = thing > > In Mako template: > > <script> > var thing = JSON.parse(${h.to_json_string(c.thing)}); > </script> > > In helpers module: > > def to_json_string(obj): > return literal(repr(json.dumps(obj))) > > I use this helper because it properly backslash escapes things and also adds > the quotes around the JSON string, so what gets rendered is something like > this: > > <script> > var thing = JSON.parse('{"id": 13, "last_name": "O\'Leary"}'); > </script> > > Another option would be to render a JS file using Mako (being sure to set > the correct content type). -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "pylons-discuss" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/pylons-discuss?hl=en.
