Question

I’m a complete noob with Django and have been googling for a while but I can’t figure out what a portion of this template is doing.

https://github.com/oppian/oppian/blob/master/oppianproj/templates/about.html

{% load set_vars_from_json %}   
{% set_vars_from_json_block %}
    { "menu":
      [{"name":"About", "url":"{% url about %}"},
       {"name":"People", "url":"{% url people %}"},
       {"name":"Labs", "url":"{% url labs %}"},
       {"name":"Blog", "url":"{% url blog %}"},
       {"name":"Contact", "url":"{% url contact %}"}
      ]}   
{% end_set_vars_from_json_block %}

Why does the developer, load and set variables from a json_block? What advantage does this provide? My guess is that the menu urls are dynamically changed?

Simple Side Question:
For site content, such as the information within

<p>....</p>

, does this belong in templates or should I handle this as static data using a module?

EDIT: Or for the side question, do I just create a model for each page if I intend to store large paragraphs of static data?

Answer 1

Refer to the following URL

set_vars_from_json_block is a template tag

{ "menu":
      [{"name":"About", "url":"{% url about %}"},
       {"name":"People", "url":"{% url people %}"},
       {"name":"Labs", "url":"{% url labs %}"},
       {"name":"Blog", "url":"{% url blog %}"},
       {"name":"Contact", "url":"{% url contact %}"}
      ]} 

This loads the json snippet, and in the templatetag, it parses for end_set_vars_from_json_block to make it a block based implementation.

You could just have one model to save all by specifying “type”. Check out Django Picklefield