Question

I guess i have a simple question about better code organization.

Say i have multiple apps that also implement how these apps should be represented on presentation layer.

I am trying to understand how to organize the code if i need to present multiple apps on one page without using frames of course?

Quick example: say I have two apps (app1 and app2) both implmeneting their coresponding model and views. Now i need my index page to contain presentation of these two views. How can i implement the generic view that still utilizes the app views instead of going to their models directly?
I would prefer my app to control its view still.

Thanks

Answer 1

I think you may use render_to_string shortcut
Thus in app views you put:

render_to_string(somestuff) # instead of render() or render_to_responce()

and then in index view something like this:

render(request, 'index.html', {'block1': view1(request), 'block2': view2(request)})

PS: Also after i wrote this it doesn’t look very nice (it looked better in my head 🙂 ).