Question

I am including templateInclude.html in templateA.html. While I can access {{ request.get_full_path }} from templateA.html, I cannot do so from templateInclude.html.

I would both like to solve and understand that problem. Is there a way of passing the request object to the included template?

Answer 1

If you are using Django version 1.3+, then you can use:

{% include "templateInclude.html" with full_path=request.get_full_path %}

For earlier versions, you should use with templatetag ie.

{% with request.get_full_path as full_path %}
    {% include "templateInclude.html" %}
{% endwith %} 

In the both cases, just use full_path in the template which you will be including.

In general it works like context managers in regular python code – http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0343/

Anyway it’s weird because according to the docs, included templates have access to the whole context of parent template. Check if you’re using RequestContext in the view, or as a middleware.