doc/book/_maybe_to_integrate/template.rst
author Aurelien Campeas <aurelien.campeas@logilab.fr>
Fri, 06 Jun 2014 17:08:08 +0200
changeset 10346 b926ff4ef4a8
parent 1714 a721966779be
child 12792 e2cdb1be6bd9
permissions -rw-r--r--
[repoapi,session] remove all session-as-cnx backward compat The `dbapi` being gone, we now can drop the session object bw-compatibility layer. This will allow further simplifications, such as folding ClientConnection and Connection (without too much pain), and then having persistent sessions. Related to #3933480.



Templates
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*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`.