TurboGears2 exposes both use_custom_format and override_template functions which can be called inside your controller to override templates.
I suggest to use a custom_format with use_custom_format which is cleaner, but both do their job. On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 7:10 PM, pkraus <[email protected]> wrote: > I have a search controller that has a customer_search method that uses a > specific template. > > The content is loaded via ajax load calls in may different parts of my > application. The controller method is the same as all it does is perform a > search and return the results however depending on what part of my > application is doing the search I need to change the view of those results. > I could do this with a huge single genshi template but for maintenance and > code sanity it makes sense to me to just have multiple views running of the > single controller method. > > @expose('erp.templates.search.customer_search') <--- I would like to be > able to change this > def customer_search(self,customer_query): > results = do_search_stuff(customer_query) > return dict(results = results) > > For instance depending on where the app is called I might need the results > returned via json, or a different genshi template that displays the results > in a more meaningful way depending on where the results were called from. > > Reading the forum I found a solution but it was for tg1 and based in kid it > said to just return tg_template in the dictionary. This doesn't work and it > doesn't solve the problem for when would need to return json. > > Thoughts? > > --Just a suggestion, but there might be some value in having a tg2 and tg1 > group so that searching can yield more specific results. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "TurboGears" group. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msg/turbogears/-/_a_TnwwszaYJ. > 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. -- 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.
