Feed.get_context_data(**kwargs)
There is also a way to pass additional information to title and description templates, if you need to supply more than the two variables mentioned before. You can provide your implementation of get_context_data method in your Feed subclass. For example:
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 | from mysite.models import Articlefrom django.contrib.syndication.views import Feedclass ArticlesFeed(Feed): title = "My articles" description_template = "feeds/articles.html" def items(self): return Article.objects.order_by('-pub_date')[:5] def get_context_data(self, **kwargs): context = super(ArticlesFeed, self).get_context_data(**kwargs) context['foo'] = 'bar' return context |
And the template:
1 | Something about {{ foo }}: {{ obj.description }} |
This method will be called once per each item in the list returned by items() with the following keyword arguments:
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item: the current item. For backward compatibility reasons, the name of this context variable is{{ obj }}. -
obj: the object returned byget_object(). By default this is not exposed to the templates to avoid confusion with{{ obj }}(see above), but you can use it in your implementation ofget_context_data(). -
site: current site as described above. -
request: current request.
The behavior of get_context_data() mimics that of generic views - you’re supposed to call super() to retrieve context data from parent class, add your data and return the modified dictionary.
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