i am running into the same problem did you find a solution?
On 2 פברואר, 16:44, tomtom5 <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, I'm very new to turbogears and currently digging into details. > Now I run into troubles. > The question is: how to call genshi to render a template with params > into a string result? > > I try to return a pdf document, that is created via pisa (xhtml2pdf > converter) from a genshi template: > 1) My controller method fetches data (invoice, reports, ...) from data > backend. > 2) I would like to use genshi to render a html template (that defines > the pdf presentation) into a string > 3) Then I convert this String to PDF using pisa, and return the PDF. > > This stack works basically with attached controller code, but the > genshi rendering doesn't work: anything in the py: namespace > (<py:replace, <py:if..) is not executed/evaluated, while ${param} > replacements work fine. Converting the result to pdf works perfektly > again - but the templating logic is missing ;-) right now. > > I think I have to prepare the rendering in some way, but have no idea > what is missing or how to call it to get the genshi rendering done > well. > > import ho.pisa as pisa > from pylons.templating import render_genshi > > @expose(content_type="application/pdf") > def pisa_test(self, **kw): > filename = os.path.join(os.getcwd(), "pisa_test.pdf") > content = render_genshi('helloworld.reports.pisa_layout_test', > dict(editor = "MyName", projectNumber="12345")) > > f = file(filename, "wb") > pdf = pisa.CreatePDF(content, f) > f.close() > f = open(filename, 'rb') > pdf = f.read() > f.close() > return pdf > > Thanks for comments in advance. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TurboGears" 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/turbogears?hl=en.
