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| author | Karl O. Pinc <kop@meme.com> | 2013-10-05 00:37:09 -0500 |
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| committer | Karl O. Pinc <kop@meme.com> | 2013-10-05 00:37:09 -0500 |
| commit | 1f7a00346411033d935bf931c206b585353f8be4 (patch) | |
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Docs: Link from renderer narrative docs to example render_to_response call, and index the example.
More fully explain the 2 examples, one with render_to_response call
and one without.
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| -rw-r--r-- | docs/narr/introduction.rst | 11 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | docs/narr/renderers.rst | 10 |
2 files changed, 15 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/docs/narr/introduction.rst b/docs/narr/introduction.rst index 032f4be6b..8c2acf95c 100644 --- a/docs/narr/introduction.rst +++ b/docs/narr/introduction.rst @@ -321,7 +321,14 @@ assertion instead that the view returns "the right stuff" in the dictionary it returns. You can write "real" unit tests instead of functionally testing all of your views. -For example, instead of: +.. index:: + pair: renderer; explicitly calling + pair: view renderer; explictly calling + +.. _example_render_to_response_call: + +For example, instead of returning a ``Response`` object from a +``render_to_response`` call: .. code-block:: python :linenos: @@ -332,7 +339,7 @@ For example, instead of: return render_to_response('myapp:templates/mytemplate.pt', {'a':1}, request=request) -You can do this: +You can return a Python dictionary: .. code-block:: python :linenos: diff --git a/docs/narr/renderers.rst b/docs/narr/renderers.rst index 4046c67fa..b86f7298b 100644 --- a/docs/narr/renderers.rst +++ b/docs/narr/renderers.rst @@ -56,10 +56,12 @@ serialization techniques. In practice, renderers obtain application data values from Python dictionaries so, in practice, view callables which use renderers return Python dictionaries. -View configuration can vary the renderer associated with a view callable via -the ``renderer`` attribute. For example, this call to -:meth:`~pyramid.config.Configurator.add_view` associates the ``json`` renderer -with a view callable: +View callables can :ref:`explicitly call +<example_render_to_response_call>` renderers but, typically, view +configuration declares the renderer used to render a view callable's +results. This is done with the ``renderer`` attribute. For example, +this call to :meth:`~pyramid.config.Configurator.add_view` associates +the ``json`` renderer with a view callable: .. code-block:: python |
