doc/book/_maybe_to_integrate/template.rst
author Julien Cristau <julien.cristau@logilab.fr>
Mon, 24 Nov 2014 17:43:29 +0100
changeset 10047 a1fde2d343b6
parent 1714 a721966779be
child 12792 e2cdb1be6bd9
permissions -rw-r--r--
[urlpublishing] handle sub-types in RestPathEvaluator Since commit 31a1813d53f3 "[entity/url publishing] fetch_rqlst should use 'is_instance_of' instead of 'is'", the RestPathEvaluator's input rset can have more than one etype, so it can't always use sameetypelist. Related to #3825488



Templates
---------

*Templates* are specific views that do not depend on a result set. The basic
class `Template` (`cubicweb.common.view`) is derived from the class `View`.

To build a HTML page, a *main template* is used. In general, the template of
identifier `main` is the one to use (it is not used in case an error is raised or for
the login form for example). This template uses other templates in addition
to the views which depends on the content to generate the HTML page to return.

A *template* is responsible for:

1. executing RQL query of data to render if necessary
2. identifying the view to use to render data if it is not specified
3. composing the HTML page to return

You will find out more about templates in :ref:`templates`.