Re: Passing a dict to default page_not_found view

Hi Russell,

Many thanks for your reply. The template tag approach looks good and I will try to use this one.

One further question. If I am using the @register.simple_tag decorator, can I create the view in the views.py file or do I have to create a templatetags directory and follow the full procedure of creating a tag?

Sorry if this sounds all basic but I am quite new to this.

Thanks a lot in advance.

Best wishes,

Masud

On 21 July 2012 08:52, Russell Keith-Magee <russell@keith-magee.com> wrote:

On Sat, Jul 21, 2012 at 10:09 AM, Masud Khokhar <masud.khokhar@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I am using the default 404 view that Django uses. I have created a custom 404.html page in my templates directory which automatically gets loaded. Is it possible for this page to load a python dictionary or do I need to raise http404 myself for that?
>
> In essence, what I am trying to do is load a random message in the 404.html. There may be a simpler solution for that.

There sure is: Use a template tag instead.

https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.4/howto/custom-template-tags/#simple-tags

If your custom template tag makes the random call, you don't need to
put randomly selected text or a randomly selected value into the
template context.

The template context for the 404 page isn't something that's
configurable by default, so if you *did* want to go down that path,
you'd have to write your own 404 view, and set that as your 404
handler. This isn't especially difficult to do, but the template tag
approach will be simpler :-)

Yours,
Russ Magee %-)

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